Bug 783370 (CVE-2012-0068) - CVE-2012-0068 Wireshark: Heap-buffer underflow when parsing LANalyzer packet capture files
Summary: CVE-2012-0068 Wireshark: Heap-buffer underflow when parsing LANalyzer packet ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-0068
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 781268
Blocks: 773730
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Reported: 2012-01-20 06:47 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-24 13:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-01-20 06:51:29 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-01-20 06:47:18 UTC 
A heap-based buffer underflow issue was found in way wireshark parsed LANalyzer packet capture files. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash or possibly execute arbitrary code (with the persmisisons of the user running wireshark) by convincing someone to read a malformed
IPTrace packet capture file.  This is corrected in upstream 1.4.11 and 1.6.5.

Reference:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-01.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6670

Patch:
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40169
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-01-20 06:48:45 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-01-20 06:51:29 UTC 
This issue affects the version of wireshark shipped with Fedora 15 and Fedora 16 and has been addressed in the following security advisories:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/wireshark-1.4.11-1.fc15
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/wireshark-1.6.5-1.fc16
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