Bug 1343963 (CVE-2016-5350) - CVE-2016-5350 wireshark: SPOOLS infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2016-29)
Summary: CVE-2016-5350 wireshark: SPOOLS infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2016-29)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-5350
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1343978
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-08 12:12 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:44 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: Wireshark 2.0.4, Wireshark 1.12.12
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Last Closed: 2016-06-08 12:39:12 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 12:12:19 UTC 
It was reported that Wireshark's SPOOLS could loop infinitely. 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.

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https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-29.html
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 12:28:37 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1343978]
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-06-09 14:34:03 UTC 
CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/510

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/b4d16b4495b732888e12baf5b8a7e9bf2665e22b
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