Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1109034
CVE-2014-4020 wireshark: Frame metadissector crash (wnpa-sec-2014-07)
Last modified: 2018-06-21 04:45:05 EDT
It was reported that Wireshark's Frame metadissector could crash. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. This is reported to affect Wireshark versions 1.10.0 to 1.10.7. It is fixed in 1.10.8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9999 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10030 The version of Wireshark in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 is older than 1.10.x, and should not be affected. The version of Wireshark in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is affected. External References: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-07.html
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1109036]
Statement: This issue does not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. It does affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw.