Bug 807611 (CVE-2012-1593) - CVE-2012-1593 wireshark: NULL pointer dereference in ANSI A dissector
Summary: CVE-2012-1593 wireshark: NULL pointer dereference in ANSI A dissector
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-1593
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: 808973
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-28 10:40 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-24 12:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-04-22 20:43:29 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-28 10:40:55 UTC 
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way ANSI A dissector of the Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, processed certain capture files (those causing wireshark to pass NULL packet information via a global variable to the call_dissector() routine). A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted packet capture file, which once opened by a local unsuspecting user would lead to wireshark executable crash.

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6823

Relevant upstream patch:
[2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40962

CVE Request:
[3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/7

Reproducer:
[4] http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/captures/fuzz-2012-02-10-23234.pcap
Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2012-03-28 15:08:38 UTC 
Added CVE as per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/13
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-03-30 07:56:01 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 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-02 04:25:15 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-16 [bug 808973]
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-04-19 05:22:49 UTC 
wireshark-1.6.6-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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