Bug 807624 (CVE-2012-1594)

Summary:	CVE-2012-1594 wireshark: Infinite loop in the IEEE 802.11 dissector
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	alekcejk, huzaifas, jsafrane, rvokal
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-28 11:06:30 UTC

A denial of service flaw was found in the way IEEE 802.11 dissector of Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, processed certain capture files (16-bit integers were used as counters during loading of capture files for certain protocols). A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted packet capture file, which once opened by a local unsuspecting user would lead to situation, where wireshark executable would never finish loading of such capture file (infinite loop).

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6809

Relevant upstream patch:
[2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40967

CVE Request:
[3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/7

Reproducer:
[4] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20367565/oldg_internalantenna.pcap

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-28 11:08:18 UTC

This issue did NOT affect the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

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This issue did NOT affect the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15.

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This issue affects the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16.

Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2012-03-28 15:09:16 UTC

Added CVE as per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/13

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-03-30 07:52:03 UTC

Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-02 04:25:43 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-16 [bug 808973]

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-04-19 05:22:56 UTC

wireshark-1.6.6-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.