Bug 750648 (CVE-2011-4102) - CVE-2011-4102 wireshark: buffer overflow in the ERF file reader
Summary: CVE-2011-4102 wireshark: buffer overflow in the ERF file reader
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-4102
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 750649 809045 809046 834180
Blocks: 750654 807617 816611
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-01 21:13 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2023-05-13 00:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-01-08 09:10:29 UTC
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0509 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: wireshark security update 2012-04-23 20:47:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0125 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: wireshark security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2013-01-08 09:22:17 UTC

Description Vincent Danen 2011-11-01 21:13:43 UTC 
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way that Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.0 through 1.6.2 handled reading ERF files.  This could cause wireshark to crash by reading a malformed packet trace file.  This is corrected in wireshark 1.6.3.

References:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6479
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39508


External References:

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-19.html
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-11-01 21:15:32 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 750649]
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-11-01 22:07:40 UTC 
This was assigned the name CVE-2011-4102:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/9
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-23 16:52:43 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0509 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0509.html
Comment 12 Murray McAllister 2012-10-03 04:25:27 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team.
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-08 05:00:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0125 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html
Comment 16 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-08 09:10:29 UTC 
Statement:

(none)
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.