Bug 919141 (CVE-2013-2482)

Summary:	CVE-2013-2482 wireshark: Infinite loop in the AMPQ dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-17, upstream bug 8337)
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, 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 05:46:27 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	919494, 919496
Bug Blocks:	919159

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-07 16:58:52 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2482 to the following vulnerability:

The AMPQ dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.14 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed packet.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2482
[2] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.14.html
[3] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
[4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-17.html
[5] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8337

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-08 16:17:20 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-17 [bug 919494]

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-08 16:30:07 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-18 [bug 919496]

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2013-03-08 22:09:44 UTC

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Moshe Kaplan for reporting this issue.

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-14 05:46:27 UTC

Statement:

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