Bug 1142606 – CVE-2014-6426 wireshark: HIP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2014-16)

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Bug 1142606 - (CVE-2014-6426) CVE-2014-6426 wireshark: HIP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2014-16)

Summary:	CVE-2014-6426 wireshark: HIP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2014-16)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2014-6426

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1148264 1148265 1148266 1148267 1148277
Blocks:	1142615
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Reported:	2014-09-17 02:08 EDT by Murray McAllister
Modified:	2015-11-25 05:13 EST (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2014-10-22 07:57:06 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:1676	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: wireshark security update	2014-10-21 20:22:29 EDT

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Description Murray McAllister 2014-09-17 02:08:54 EDT

An infinite loop issue was discovered in Wireshark's HIP dissector. It may be possible to make Wireshark consume an excessive amount of CPU by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

This is reported to affect version 1.12.0. This version is not shipped in Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-16.html

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2014-09-29 08:43:27 EDT

I dont see any upstream bugzilla assigned to it , but here is the upstream fix

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commitdiff;h=d9e5021fe79973d00ddd8fcef0bbefbaae63dd0f;hp=20721cbcbf76665b625d5b1243648c9a3ccc403d

Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2014-10-01 02:07:56 EDT

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1148277]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-21 16:22:52 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2014:1676 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html

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