Bug 972684 (CVE-2013-4079) - CVE-2013-4079 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop, application hang) in the GSM CBCH dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-37)
Summary: CVE-2013-4079 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop, application hang) in the GSM CBC...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-4079
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 972762 979246
Blocks: 972772
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-10 12:05 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: wireshark-1.8.8
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-06-11 04:47:12 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-10 12:05:13 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-4079 to the following vulnerability:

The dissect_schedule_message function in epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_cbch.c in the GSM CBCH dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and application hang) via a crafted packet.

References:
[1] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_cbch.c?r1=49686&r2=49685&pathrev=49686
[2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=49686
[3] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.8.html
[4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-37.html
[5] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8730

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-10 13:59:01 UTC
This issue did NOT affect the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17.

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This issue affects the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 18. Please schedule an update.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-10 14:35:49 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-18 [bug 972762]

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-06-11 04:46:55 UTC
The version of wireshark shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 does not have support for GSM-CBCH Protocol. Therefore this flaw does not affect these versions.

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-06-11 04:47:12 UTC
Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2013-06-14 18:23:49 UTC
External References:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-37.html

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-09-28 00:13:28 UTC
wireshark-1.10.2-6.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-10-03 01:04:25 UTC
wireshark-1.10.2-7.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-12-19 07:11:04 UTC
wireshark-1.10.2-4.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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