Bug 1234416 – CVE-2015-4652 wireshark: GSM DTAP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-20)

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Bug 1234416 - (CVE-2015-4652) CVE-2015-4652 wireshark: GSM DTAP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-20)

Summary:	CVE-2015-4652 wireshark: GSM DTAP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-20)

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2015-4652

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

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1234417
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Reported:	2015-06-22 09:57 EDT by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2015-07-08 23:44 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	Wireshark 1.12.6
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Last Closed:	2015-07-08 23:44:44 EDT
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-22 09:57:09 EDT

It was reported that it may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed GSM DTAP packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
Upstream bug: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11201
Upstream fix: https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=d93be95fc0e7011e8b4ade9171e7e66146063296

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-20.html

Statement:

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

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-22 09:57:50 EDT

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1234417]

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