Bug 965111 - wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the MySQL dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-30, upstream #8458)
Summary: wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the MySQL dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-30, upst...
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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
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 881873 965942
Blocks: 965198
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Reported: 2013-05-20 12:57 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-05-23 05:36:29 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-05-20 12:57:58 UTC 
A denial of service flaw was found in the way MySQL dissector of Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, processed certain MySQL packet capture files. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted MySQL packet capture file that, when processed, would lead to denial of service (wireshark executable to enter infinite loop while trying to dissect that file).

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8458

Reproducer:
[2] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8458#c1

Upstream patch:
[3] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48894
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-05-22 06:30:32 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-17 [bug 881873]
Affects: fedora-18 [bug 965942]
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-05-22 09:26:37 UTC 
Upstream advisory:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-30.html
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-05-22 10:21:52 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-05-23 05:36:29 UTC 

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