Bug 881822 (CVE-2012-5593, CVE-2012-6053) - CVE-2012-5593 CVE-2012-6053 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the USB dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-31)
Summary: CVE-2012-5593 CVE-2012-6053 wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the USB dissect...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-5593, CVE-2012-6053
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: 881873
Blocks: 881865
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-29 16:11 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-17 08:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-11-30 04:54:50 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-29 16:11:25 UTC
A denial of service flaw was found in the way USB dissector of Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, performed dissection of certain USB packet capture files. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted USB packet / packet capture that, when processed, would lead to excessive CPU consumption or into situation where tshark executable would enter an infinite loop, when trying to process the crafted packet / packet capture file.

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7787

References:
[2] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-31.html
[3] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.12.html
[4] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.4.html

Relevant upstream patches:
[5] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45310 (main fix)
[6] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45339 (fix valgrind error msg too)

Reproducer:
[7] http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/captures/fuzz-2012-10-03-20994.pcap

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-29 16:16:28 UTC
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

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This issue affects the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 17.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-29 17:52:27 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 881873]

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2012-11-29 21:56:07 UTC
This was assigned CVE-2012-5593:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/29/5

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2012-11-29 22:18:21 UTC
Statement CVE-2012-6053:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-12-05 13:36:12 UTC
CVE-2012-5593 identifier has been rejected by Mitre in favour of CVE-2012-6053:

Name: CVE-2012-5593

** REJECT **

DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.  ConsultIDs: CVE-2012-6053.  Reason:
This candidate is a reservation duplicate of CVE-2012-6053.  Notes:
All CVE users should reference CVE-2012-6053 instead of this
candidate.  All references and descriptions in this candidate have
been removed to prevent accidental usage.

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The correct CVE id this particular wireshark flaw should be referenced under (from now on) is CVE-2012-6053.


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