It was reported that Wireshark's GSM RLC/MAC dissector could crash. 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 versions the following Wireshark versions: 1.12.7. Upstream bug(s): https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11358 External References: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-25
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-2015-6245
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=78bc3dd93a562ca1b1c5dbc8f71d2967008be7ed
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.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:2393 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2393.html
Statement: This issue did not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.