It was reported that Wireshark's WaveAgent dissector 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 flaw is fixed in the following Wireshark versions: 1.12.7. Upstream bug(s): https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11358 External References: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-26
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1253364]
wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update wireshark'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-13945
wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update wireshark'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-13946
CVE was assigned: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6246
wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Patch ----- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=5523726e6960fe9d7e301376fd7a94599f65fd42
wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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
Statement: This issue did not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the verison of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Mitigation: This flaw can be mitigated in wireshark by disabling the waveagent protocol dissector. In wireshark GUI application click on Analyze->Enabled Protocols and search for "waveagent" and disable in. When using "tshark", the text interface, create a file called "disabled_protos" in the preferences folder (normally .wireshark folder in the home directory of the user running wireshark) and add "waveagent" to it. This should disable the waveagent protocol.