Bug 1565833 – CVE-2018-9274 wireshark: memory leak in ui/failure_message.c

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Bug 1565833 - (CVE-2018-9274) CVE-2018-9274 wireshark: memory leak in ui/failure_message.c

Summary:	CVE-2018-9274 wireshark: memory leak in ui/failure_message.c

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2018-9274

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:	1565675 1575744 1565684
Blocks:	1565716
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Reported:	2018-04-10 17:09 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2018-05-07 14:51 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 14:49:16 EDT
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 17:09:58 EDT

A flaw was found in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, ui/failure_message.c has a memory leak.


References:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-24.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14489

Patch:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=211845aba4794720ae265c782cdffddae54a3e7a
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f38e895dfc0d97bce64f73ce99df706911d9aa07

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 17:11:17 EDT

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1565684]

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