Bug 1142610 (CVE-2014-6423) - CVE-2014-6423 wireshark: MEGACO dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2014-13)
Summary: CVE-2014-6423 wireshark: MEGACO dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2014-13)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-6423
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1142613 1148263 1148264 1148265 1148266 1148267
Blocks: 1142615
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-09-17 06:12 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:12 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: wireshark 1.10.10, wireshark 1.12.1
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-10-22 11:56:44 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1676 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: wireshark security update 2014-10-22 00:22:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1677 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: wireshark security update 2014-10-21 23:41:40 UTC

Description Murray McAllister 2014-09-17 06:12:07 UTC 
An infinite loop issue was discovered in Wireshark's MEGACO dissector. It may be possible to make Wireshark consume an excessive amount of CPU by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

This is reported to affect Wireshark versions 1.12.0, and 1.10.0 to 1.10.9. It is fixed in versions 1.12.1 and 1.10.10.

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10333

The version of Wireshark in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 is older than 1.10.x, and should not be affected. The version of Wireshark in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is affected.

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-13.html
Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-09-17 06:18:01 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1142613]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2014-09-25 10:41:11 UTC 
wireshark-1.10.10-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2014-09-29 13:21:50 UTC 
upstream fix
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https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=9112a099d7cc2cd924b7c667bf27f6e112b970c6
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-10-12 05:03:01 UTC 
wireshark-1.12.1-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-21 19:42:13 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1677 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1677.html
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-21 20:22:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2014:1676 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html
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