Bug 1222433 – CVE-2015-3808 CVE-2015-3809 wireshark: LBMR infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2015-12)

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Bug 1222433 - (CVE-2015-3808, CVE-2015-3809) CVE-2015-3808 CVE-2015-3809 wireshark: LBMR infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2015-12)

Summary:	CVE-2015-3808 CVE-2015-3809 wireshark: LBMR infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2015-12)

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2015-3808, CVE-2015-3809

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

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Blocks:	1222441
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Reported:	2015-05-18 04:38 EDT by Martin Prpič
Modified:	2015-11-09 00:55 EST (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	wireshark 1.12.5
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Last Closed:	2015-06-17 06:14:06 EDT
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-05-18 04:38:57 EDT

It was reported that Wireshark's LBMR dissector could enter an infinite loop. It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

This flaw is fixed in versions the following Wireshark versions: 1.12.5.

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11036

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-12

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-05-18 04:41:53 EDT

Fixed in Fedora via:

FEDORA-2015-8150 -- wireshark-1.12.5-1.fc21

Comment 2 Siddharth Sharma 2015-06-17 06:14:06 EDT

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2015-06-17 13:11:22 EDT

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https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=patch;h=8c6929254e6b30bc64b6f7e29699085ee2611b93

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