Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-4082 to the following vulnerability: The vwr_read function in wiretap/vwr.c in Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.8 does not validate the relationship between a record length and a trailer length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted packet. References: [1] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/vwr.c?r1=49739&r2=49738&pathrev=49739 [2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=49739 [3] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.8.html [4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-40.html [5] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8760
This issue did NOT affect the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17. -- This issue affects the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 18. Please schedule an update.
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-18 [bug 972762]
The version of wireshark shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 does not have support for the Ixia IxVeriWave file format. Therefore this flaw does not affect these versions.
Statement: Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
External References: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-40.html
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.
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.
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.