Bug 750645 (CVE-2011-4101)

Summary: CVE-2011-4101 wireshark: NULL pointer dereference in Infiniband dissector can cause a crash
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Vincent Danen 2011-11-01 21:08:23 UTC
A flaw in the Infiniband dissector could cause Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.0 through 1.6.3 to crash by dereferencing a NULL pointer by reading a malformed packet trace file or if someone were to inject a malformed packet onto the wire.  This is corrected in wireshark 1.6.3

References:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6476
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39500


External References:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-18.html

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-11-01 21:15:50 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 750649]

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-11-01 22:05:36 UTC
This was assigned the name CVE-2011-4101:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/9

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-11-03 06:04:32 UTC
Statement:

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