Bug 972681 (CVE-2013-4076)

Summary:	CVE-2013-4076 wireshark: Invalid free in the PPP dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-34)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, jrusnack, phatina, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	wireshark-1.8.8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2013-06-11 04:41:48 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	972760, 972762, 979246
Bug Blocks:	972772

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-10 12:03:26 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-4076 to the following vulnerability:

Buffer overflow in the dissect_iphc_crtp_fh function in epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c in the PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

References:
[1] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c?r1=46128&r2=46127&pathrev=46128
[2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=46128
[3] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.8.html
[4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-34.html
[5] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7880
[6] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8727

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-10 13:34:42 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17 and 18. Please schedule an update.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-10 14:27:21 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-17 [bug 972760]

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-10 14:33:36 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-18 [bug 972762]

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-06-11 04:41:48 UTC

Statement:

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

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2013-06-14 18:25:35 UTC

External References:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-34.html

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-09-28 00:12:57 UTC

wireshark-1.10.2-6.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-10-03 01:03:56 UTC

wireshark-1.10.2-7.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-12-19 07:10:30 UTC

wireshark-1.10.2-4.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.