Bug 750648 (CVE-2011-4102)

Summary:	CVE-2011-4102 wireshark: buffer overflow in the ERF file reader
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, jsafrane, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	750649, 809045, 809046, 834180
Bug Blocks:	750654, 807617, 816611

Description Vincent Danen 2011-11-01 21:13:43 UTC

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way that Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.0 through 1.6.2 handled reading ERF files.  This could cause wireshark to crash by reading a malformed packet trace file.  This is corrected in wireshark 1.6.3.

References:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6479
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39508


External References:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-19.html

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-11-01 21:15:32 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 750649]

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-11-01 22:07:40 UTC

This was assigned the name CVE-2011-4102:

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

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-23 16:52:43 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0509 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0509.html

Comment 12 Murray McAllister 2012-10-03 04:25:27 UTC

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-08 05:00:38 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0125 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html

Comment 16 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-08 09:10:29 UTC

Statement:

(none)