Bug 1549244 (CVE-2018-7335) - CVE-2018-7335 wireshark: IEEE 802.11 dissector crash in airpdcap.c
Summary: CVE-2018-7335 wireshark: IEEE 802.11 dissector crash in airpdcap.c
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-7335
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1549246
Blocks: 1549310
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Reported: 2018-02-26 19:46 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:46 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: wireshrak 2.4.5, wireshark 2.2.13
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A denial of service flaw was found in the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark. A remote network attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash Wireshark by tricking it into processing a crafted packet.
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Last Closed: 2018-03-16 09:08:49 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-02-26 19:46:27 UTC 
A flaw was found in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.12, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c by rejecting lengths that are too small. 

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-05.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14442

Upstream Patch:

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=a2901dcf45c9f1b
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-02-26 19:46:53 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1549246]
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