Bug 990156 (CVE-2013-4921)

Summary: CVE-2013-4921 wireshark: Off-by-one (application crash) in the Radiotap dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-43)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: huzaifas, jkurik, phatina, rvokal, vkrizan
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Fixed In Version: Wireshark 1.10.1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 990202    
Bug Blocks: 990216    

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-07-30 13:48:32 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-4921 to the following vulnerability:

Off-by-one error in the dissect_radiotap function in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211-radiotap.c in the Radiotap dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.1 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-ieee80211-radiotap.c?r1=50090&r2=50089&pathrev=50090
[2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=50090
[3] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html
[4] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8830
[5] https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-43.html

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-07-30 14:48:22 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-19 [bug 990202]

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-08-05 05:19:58 UTC
Statement:

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