Bug 919144 (CVE-2013-2485) - CVE-2013-2485 wireshark: Infinite loop in the FCSP dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-20, upstream bug 8359)
Summary: CVE-2013-2485 wireshark: Infinite loop in the FCSP dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-2...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-2485
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 919494 919496
Blocks: 919159
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-07 17:01 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:57 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: Wireshark 1.8.6, Wireshark 1.6.14
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-03-14 06:09:48 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-07 17:01:18 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2485 to the following vulnerability:

The FCSP dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.14 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed packet.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2485
[2] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.14.html
[3] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
[4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-20.html
[5] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8359
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-08 16:18:39 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-17 [bug 919494]
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-08 16:31:40 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-18 [bug 919496]
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-14 06:07:47 UTC 
Upstream patch:

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-fcsp.c?r1=47389&r2=47775
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-14 06:09:48 UTC 
Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
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