Bug 559793 – CVE-2010-0304 wireshark: crash in LWRES dissector

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Bug 559793 - (CVE-2010-0304) CVE-2010-0304 wireshark: crash in LWRES dissector

Summary:	CVE-2010-0304 wireshark: crash in LWRES dissector

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2010-0304

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

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Depends On:	549581 549582 549583 549584 560743 561098 561099 833992
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Reported:	2010-01-28 20:26 EST by Vincent Danen
Modified:	2015-07-31 02:24 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2010-06-25 05:46:55 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2010:0360	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: wireshark security update	2010-04-20 11:31:15 EDT

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Description Vincent Danen 2010-01-28 20:26:31 EST

Babi discovered several buffer overflows in the LWRES dissector which could be used to crash wireshark [1].

Fixed in trunk: r31524
Fixed in trunk-1.2: r31596
Fixed in trunk-1.0: r31671
Versions affected: 0.9.15 to 1.0.10, 1.2.0 to 1.2.5

[1] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-02.html

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-01-30 00:21:04 EST

This is CVE-2010-0304.

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2010-02-01 13:54:45 EST

The LWRES protocol is meant to be used locally to talk to BIND9 (for example, lwresd will only listen to 127.0.0.1):

http://www.phpman.info/index.php/man/lwresd/8

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-03-02 11:31:54 EST

wireshark-1.2.6-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/wireshark-1.2.6-1.fc12

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2010-03-03 19:09:23 EST

wireshark-1.2.6-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2010-04-20 11:31:28 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Via RHSA-2010:0360 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0360.html

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