It was reported that it may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed GSM DTAP packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. Upstream bug: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11201 Upstream fix: https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=d93be95fc0e7011e8b4ade9171e7e66146063296 External References: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-20.html Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1234417]