Bug 1312798 (CVE-2016-4418) - CVE-2016-4418 wireshark: ASN.1 BER dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2016-15)
Summary: CVE-2016-4418 wireshark: ASN.1 BER dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2016-15)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-4418
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1312803
Blocks: 1312806
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-29 09:40 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:15 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: Wireshark 2.0.2, Wireshark 1.12.10
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:49:05 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-02-29 09:40:23 UTC
It was reported that Wireshark's ASN.1 BER 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.

Upstream bug(s):

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12106

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-15.html

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-02-29 09:44:29 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1312803]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-02 09:30:38 UTC
CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/177


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