Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 919147
CVE-2013-2487 wireshark: Infinite loop in the RELOAD dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-21, upstream bug 8364) [A different flaw than CVE-2013-2486]
Last modified: 2016-03-04 06:24:51 EST
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2487 to the following vulnerability: epan/dissectors/packet-reload.c in the REsource LOcation And Discovery (aka RELOAD) dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.6 uses incorrect integer data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted integer values in a packet, related to the (1) dissect_icecandidates, (2) dissect_kinddata, (3) dissect_nodeid_list, (4) dissect_storeans, (5) dissect_storereq, (6) dissect_storeddataspecifier, (7) dissect_fetchreq, (8) dissect_findans, (9) dissect_diagnosticinfo, (10) dissect_diagnosticresponse, (11) dissect_reload_messagecontents, and (12) dissect_reload_message functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-2486. References: [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2487 [2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-reload.c?r1=47808&r2=47807&pathrev=47808 [3] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=47808 [4] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html [5] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-21.html [6] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8364
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-18 [bug 919496]
Statement: Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.