Bug 1425375 (CVE-2017-6014) - CVE-2017-6014 wireshark: Memory exhaustion/infinite loop via malformed STANAG 4607 capture file
Summary: CVE-2017-6014 wireshark: Memory exhaustion/infinite loop via malformed STANAG...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-6014
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1425376
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-21 09:52 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-02-21 09:53:37 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-21 09:52:42 UTC 
It was found that a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-02-21 09:53:23 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1425376]
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