Bug 1343972 – CVE-2016-5359 wireshark: WBXML infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2016-38)

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Bug 1343972 - (CVE-2016-5359) CVE-2016-5359 wireshark: WBXML infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2016-38)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5359 wireshark: WBXML infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2016-38)

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5359

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

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Depends On:	1343978
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Reported:	2016-06-08 08:14 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2016-06-09 10:42 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	Wireshark 1.12.12
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 08:14:59 EDT

It was reported that Wireshark's WBXML could loop infinitely. 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=12408

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-38.html

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 08:29:19 EDT

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1343978]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-06-09 10:42:39 EDT

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/510

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/b8e0d416898bb975a02c1b55883342edc5b4c9c0

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