Bug 1534374 (CVE-2018-5336) - CVE-2018-5336 wireshark: Missing recursion limit in epan/tvbparse.c can cause multiple dissectors to crash
Summary: CVE-2018-5336 wireshark: Missing recursion limit in epan/tvbparse.c can cause...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-5336
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-01-15 06:12 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:29 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: wireshark 2.4.4, wireshark 2.2.12
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:37:12 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-01-15 06:12:04 UTC 
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.

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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5336
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-01.html
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-01-15 06:12:43 UTC 
Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1534375]
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