An out of heap-based buffer bounds read flaw was found in the way Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, performed dissection of certain ISAKMP packets. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted ISAKMP packet / packet capture that, when processed, would lead to wireshark executable crash. Upstream bug report: [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7855 References: [2] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-35.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 patch: [5] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45510 Reproducer: [6] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7855#c1
This issue did NOT affect the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. -- This issue affects the version of the wireshark package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. -- This issue affects the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 17.
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 881873]
This was assigned CVE-2012-5597: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/29/5
The CVE-2012-5597 identifier has been rejected by Mitre in favour of CVE-2012-6059 one: Name: CVE-2012-5597 ** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2012-6059. Reason: This candidate is a reservation duplicate of CVE-2012-6059. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2012-6059 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent accidental usage. -- The correct CVE identifier this particular wireshark flaw should be referenced under (from now on) is CVE-2012-6059.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:1569 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1569.html
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