Bug 881816 (CVE-2012-5594, CVE-2012-6054)

Summary:	CVE-2012-5594 CVE-2012-6054 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the sFlow dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-32)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, jrusnack, jsafrane, mapcode.mind, phatina, rvokal
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	881873
Bug Blocks:	881865

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-29 16:01:36 UTC

A denial of service flaw was found in the way sFlow dissector of Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, performed dissection of certain sFlow packet capture files. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted sFlow packet / packet capture that, when processed, would lead to excessive CPU consumption or into situation where tshark executable would enter an infinite loop, when trying to process the crafted packet / packet capture file.

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7789

References:
[2] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-32.html
[3] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.4.html

Relevant upstream patch:
[4] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45324

Reproducer:
[5] http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/captures/fuzz-2012-10-03-25361.pcap

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-29 16:12:46 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 affects the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 17.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-29 17:52:04 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 881873]

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2012-11-29 21:57:52 UTC

This was assigned CVE-2012-5594:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/29/5

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2012-11-29 22:19:10 UTC

Statement CVE-2012-6054:

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

Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-12-05 13:38:40 UTC

CVE-2012-5594 identifier has been rejected by Mitre in favour of CVE-2012-6054:

Name: CVE-2012-5594

** REJECT **

DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.  ConsultIDs: CVE-2012-6054.  Reason:
This candidate is a reservation duplicate of CVE-2012-6054.  Notes:
All CVE users should reference CVE-2012-6054 instead of this
candidate.  All references and descriptions in this candidate have
been removed to prevent accidental usage.

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The correct CVE identifier this particular wireshark flaw should be referenced under (from now on) is CVE-2012-6054.