Bug 1534374 – CVE-2018-5336 wireshark: Missing recursion limit in epan/tvbparse.c can cause multiple dissectors to crash

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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...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-5336

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

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Reported:	2018-01-15 01:12 EST by Sam Fowler
Modified:	2018-09-06 12:00 EDT (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	wireshark 2.4.4, wireshark 2.2.12
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-01-15 01:12:04 EST

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.

References:
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 01:12:43 EST

Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1534375]

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