Originally, CVE-2013-2486 (bug #CVE-2013-2486) and CVE-2013-2487 (bug #CVE-2013-2487) identifiers have been assigned to a denial of service flaw (excessive CPU consumption and infinite loop) in the RELOAD dissector of Wireshark. Later it was reported: [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8546#c0 that despite being officially announced the complete patch has not been applied upstream (r47808 was, but r47805 was not). Original r47805 patch has been now applied upstream as revision: [2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48677 and whole issue has been corrected in Wireshark 1.8.7 version. Relevant upstream bug reports: [3] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8364 [4] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8546 Relevant upstream patches: [5] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=47808 [6] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=47805 [7] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48677
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-18 [bug 965942]
Upstream advisory: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-23.html The version of wireshark shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, does not have support for REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD) Base Protocol
Statement: Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.