A denial of service flaw was found in the way Websocket dissector of Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, processed certain Websocket packet capture files. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted Websocket packet capture file that, when processed, would lead to tshark executable crash. Upstream bug reports: [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8448 [2] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8499 Reproducer: [3] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8448#c0 [4] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8499#c0 Upstream patch: [5] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48336 [6] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48419
Upstream advisory: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-29.html The version of wireshark shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 does not have support for parsing Websocket data.
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-18 [bug 965942]
As per http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/378 , this issue has been split into two CVEs, the following explanation has been given by MITRE: "Use CVE-2013-3561 for the Bug 8448 issue. Note that this CVE is shared with issues covered by wnpa-sec-2013-30 and wnpa-sec-2013-31. Use CVE-2013-3562 for the Bug 8449 issue." This bug is being used for CVE-2013-3562. CVE-2013-3561 will be filed separately.
wireshark-1.10.2-6.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
wireshark-1.10.2-7.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
wireshark-1.10.2-4.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.