Bug 919130 (CVE-2013-2476)

Summary: CVE-2013-2476 wireshark: Infinite loop in the HART/IP dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-11, upstream bug 8360)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: huzaifas, jrusnack, jsafrane, phatina, rvokal
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Fixed In Version: Wireshark 1.8.6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 919496    
Bug Blocks: 919159    

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-07 16:54:18 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2476 to the following vulnerability:

The dissect_hartip function in epan/dissectors/packet-hartip.c in the HART/IP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a packet with a header that is too short.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2476
[2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk-1.8/epan/dissectors/packet-hartip.c?r1=47778&r2=47777&pathrev=47778
[3] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=47778
[4] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
[5] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-11.html
[6] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8360

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-08 16:24:19 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-18 [bug 919496]

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-14 06:00:58 UTC
Statement:

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