Bug 737783 (CVE-2011-3482)

Summary:	CVE-2011-3482 Wireshark: CSN.1 dissector vulnerability
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, jsafrane, rvokal, vdanen
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-13 04:59:20 UTC

An uninitialized variable flaw was found in the CSN.1 dissector of wireshark. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
This affects versions 1.6.0 to 1.6.1 and has been fixed in version 1.6.2

Reference:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-16.html

This issue affects the versions of wireshark shipped with Fedora-14, Fedora-15 and the upcoming Fedora-16 and has been fixed via the following security advisories:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12423
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12403
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12399

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-13 05:00:12 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-09-14 21:58:24 UTC

This issue was assigned the name CVE-2011-3482.