Bug 848588 (CVE-2012-4298)

Summary:	CVE-2012-4298 wireshark: buffer overflow in Ixia IxVeriWave file parser (wnpa-sec-2012-25)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, jsafrane, mapcode.mind, rvokal
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Description Vincent Danen 2012-08-15 22:00:41 UTC

It may be possible to make Wireshark crash, hang, or execute code by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Affects 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 and is fixed in upstream 1.8.2 version.

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-25.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7533
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44074
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44075

Statement:

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

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-08-15 22:03:19 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-rawhide [bug 848589]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 22:53:31 UTC

wireshark-1.8.2-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.