1222434 – (CVE-2015-3810) CVE-2015-3810 wireshark: WebSocket DoS (wnpa-sec-2015-13)

Bug 1222434 (CVE-2015-3810) - CVE-2015-3810 wireshark: WebSocket DoS (wnpa-sec-2015-13)

Summary: CVE-2015-3810 wireshark: WebSocket DoS (wnpa-sec-2015-13)

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2015-3810
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On:	1245883 1245885
Blocks:	1210268 1222441
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2015-05-18 08:39 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified:	2021-02-17 05:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)
Fixed In Version:	wireshark 1.12.5
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-11-20 04:51:11 UTC
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:2393	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: wireshark security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2015-11-19 11:03:11 UTC

Description Martin Prpič 2015-05-18 08:39:08 UTC

It was reported that Wireshark's WebSocket dissector could recurse excessively. 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=10989

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-13.html

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-05-18 08:43:24 UTC

Fixed in Fedora via:

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

Comment 2 Siddharth Sharma 2015-06-17 12:38:45 UTC

Upstream Fix
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https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=patch;h=4ee6bcbd2e03a25f1e6b0239558d9edeaf8040c0

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 12:37:08 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2393 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2393.html

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