Bug 965110 - wireshark: DoS (large loop) in the ETCH dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-31, upstream #8464)
Summary: wireshark: DoS (large loop) in the ETCH dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-31, upstream...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 966331
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 965942
Blocks: 965198
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-05-20 12:57 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-05-22 06:21:39 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-05-20 12:57:11 UTC 
A denial of service flaw was found in the way ETCH dissector of Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, processed certain ETCH packet capture files. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted ETCH packet capture file that, when processed, would lead to wireshark executable to enter large loop (denial of service) when trying to dissect that file.

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8464

Reproducer:
[2] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8464#c0

Upstream patch:
[3] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48919
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-05-21 06:16:06 UTC 
Upstream advisory:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-31.html

The version of wireshark shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 does not have support for Apache Etch Protocol.
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-05-21 06:17:06 UTC 
Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-05-22 06:27:52 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-18 [bug 965942]
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-05-23 05:36:06 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 966331 ***
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