Bug 862510 (CVE-2012-5240)

Summary: CVE-2012-5240 wireshark: Stack-based buffer overflow in the LDP dissector
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: huzaifas, jsafrane, mapcode.mind, phatina, rvokal
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Bug Depends On: 862547    
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-10-03 05:40:59 UTC
A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the wireshark processed certain Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) (RFC 3036) packets. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

References:
Upstream advisory: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-29.html
Bug report: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7567
Patch: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44801

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-10-03 07:00:01 UTC
Statement:

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

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-10-03 07:00:14 UTC
This issue not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Fedora 16 and 17.

This issue affects the version of wireshark as shipped with Fedora 18.

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-10-03 08:17:45 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-18 [bug 862547]