Bug 842516 (CVE-2012-4048)

Summary:	CVE-2012-4048 wireshark: Out-of-bounds memory write in PPP dissector
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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, jrusnack, jsafrane, rvokal
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	842531
Bug Blocks:	842520

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-24 05:20:47 UTC

An out-of-bounds memory write error was found in the wireshark PPP dissector. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause wireshark executable to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running wireshark. 

Reference:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-11.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680056

Patch:
http://code.wireshark.org/git/?p=wireshark;a=commitdiff;h=1f37a8cf14ca63e7980694fc7807cb5a7d91dc97

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-24 06:13:12 UTC

Statement:

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

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-24 06:22:40 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 842531]