A denial of service flaw was found in the way IEEE 802.11 dissector of Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, processed certain capture files (16-bit integers were used as counters during loading of capture files for certain protocols). A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted packet capture file, which once opened by a local unsuspecting user would lead to situation, where wireshark executable would never finish loading of such capture file (infinite loop). Upstream bug report: [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6809 Relevant upstream patch: [2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40967 CVE Request: [3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/7 Reproducer: [4] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20367565/oldg_internalantenna.pcap
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. -- This issue did NOT affect the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15. -- This issue affects the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16.
Added CVE as per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/13
Statement: Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-16 [bug 808973]
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.