Bug 848588 (CVE-2012-4298) - CVE-2012-4298 wireshark: buffer overflow in Ixia IxVeriWave file parser (wnpa-sec-2012-25)
Summary: CVE-2012-4298 wireshark: buffer overflow in Ixia IxVeriWave file parser (wnpa...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-4298
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: 848589
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-15 22:00 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2021-02-23 14:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-04-25 16:35:08 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2012-08-15 22:00:41 UTC 
It may be possible to make Wireshark crash, hang, or execute code by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Affects 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 and is fixed in upstream 1.8.2 version.

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-25.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7533
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44074
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44075

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This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-08-15 22:03:19 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-rawhide [bug 848589]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 22:53:31 UTC 
wireshark-1.8.2-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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