Bug 1697955 (CVE-2019-10898) - CVE-2019-10898 wireshark: GSUP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-18)
Summary: CVE-2019-10898 wireshark: GSUP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-18)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-10898
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1697956
Blocks: 1697993
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Reported: 2019-04-09 11:07 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:07 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: wireshark 3.0.1
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Last Closed: 2019-05-16 08:05:57 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2019-04-09 11:07:32 UTC 
It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file

External Referencies:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-12.html

Upstream bug(s):
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15585
Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2019-04-09 11:07:45 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1697956]
Comment 2 Riccardo Schirone 2019-05-16 08:02:44 UTC 
Upstream patch:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=5d9d7893d6723b4545d4c2c765002e4830493dc6
Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2019-05-16 08:06:01 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as they did not include support for Osmocom Generic Subscriber Update Protocol (GSUP).
Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2019-05-16 09:44:44 UTC 
External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-12.html
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