It was reported that Wireshark could crash when adding an item to the protocol tree. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. This flaw is fixed in the following Wireshark versions: 1.12.7. Upstream bug(s): https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11309 External References: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-21
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1253364]
wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update wireshark'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-13945
wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update wireshark'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-13946
CVE was assigned: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6241
wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Patch ----- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=6126a6455058696dd0ac2073032bdfe066a6ae38
wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.