Bug 919139 (CVE-2013-2481)

Summary:	CVE-2013-2481 wireshark: Crash in the Mount dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-16, upstream bug 8335)
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, phatina, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	Wireshark 1.8.6, Wireshark 1.6.14	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2013-03-14 05:54:38 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	919494, 919496
Bug Blocks:	919159

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-07 16:57:55 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2481 to the following vulnerability:

Integer signedness error in the dissect_mount_dirpath_call function in epan/dissectors/packet-mount.c in the Mount dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.14 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6, when nfs_file_name_snooping is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a negative length value.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2481
[2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-mount.c?r1=47672&r2=47671&pathrev=47672
[3] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=47672
[4] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.14.html
[5] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
[6] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-16.html
[7] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8335

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-08 16:16:55 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-17 [bug 919494]

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-08 16:29:28 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-18 [bug 919496]

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-14 05:54:38 UTC

Statement:

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