Bug 676232 – CVE-2011-0538 Wireshark: memory corruption when reading a malformed pcap file (upstream bug #5652)

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Bug 676232 - (CVE-2011-0538) CVE-2011-0538 Wireshark: memory corruption when reading a malformed pcap file (upstream bug #5652)

Summary:	CVE-2011-0538 Wireshark: memory corruption when reading a malformed pcap file...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2011-0538

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

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	549582 612240 676781 682932 682936 682937 833994
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Reported:	2011-02-09 01:31 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2015-08-19 05:05 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2012-06-20 11:47:52 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2011:0369	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: wireshark security update	2011-03-21 13:07:10 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2011:0370	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: wireshark security update	2011-03-21 15:39:13 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-02-09 01:31:11 EST

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-0538 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2011-0538
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0538
Assigned: 20110120
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20110204 Wireshark: Freeing uninitialized pointer
Reference: URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1
Reference: MISC:https://srcm.symantec.com/EditVulnerabilityFixes.aspx?docId=549474
Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652
Reference: BID:46167
Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167

Wireshark 1.5.0, 1.4.3, and earlier frees an uninitialized pointer
during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format, which allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or
possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file.

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-02-11 02:28:20 EST

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 676781]

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-03-03 04:19:46 EST

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 676781]

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-03-03 04:29:11 EST

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 676781]

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-03-21 13:07:19 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0369 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-03-21 15:39:24 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0370 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html

Comment 9 Murray McAllister 2012-10-03 00:31:22 EDT

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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