Bug 1565731 – CVE-2018-9260 wireshark: IEEE 802.15.4 dissector crash in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee802154.c

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Bug 1565731 - (CVE-2018-9260) CVE-2018-9260 wireshark: IEEE 802.15.4 dissector crash in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee802154.c

Summary:	CVE-2018-9260 wireshark: IEEE 802.15.4 dissector crash in epan/dissectors/pa...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2018-9260

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

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1565732 1575729 1565723
Blocks:	1565716
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Reported:	2018-04-10 11:49 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2018-05-07 14:44 EDT (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	wireshark 2.4.6, wireshark 2.2.14
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Last Closed:	2018-05-07 14:44:23 EDT
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 11:49:50 EDT

A flaw was found in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the IEEE 802.15.4 dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee802154.c by ensuring that an allocation step occurs.


References:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-17.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14468

Patch:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=14d6f717d8ea27688af48532edb1d29f502ea8f0

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 12:09:20 EDT

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1565723]

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