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Bug 1565674 - (CVE-2018-9256) CVE-2018-9256 wireshark: stack overflow via crafted LWAPP Layer 3 Packet
CVE-2018-9256 wireshark: stack overflow via crafted LWAPP Layer 3 Packet
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20180302,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1565675 1575726 1565676 1565684
Blocks: 1565716
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Reported: 2018-04-10 10:16 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2018-05-07 14:42 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: wireshark 2.4.6, wireshark 2.2.14
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 10:16:50 EDT
A flaw was found in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the LWAPP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-lwapp.c by limiting the encapsulation levels to restrict the recursion depth.


References:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-20.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14467

Patch:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=dac48f148538c706c446e5105d84ebcb54587528
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 10:18:23 EDT
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-26 [bug 1565676]
Comment 3 Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 11:37:02 EDT
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1565684]

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