Bug 1343964 (CVE-2016-5351) - CVE-2016-5351 wireshark: IEEE 802.11 dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2016-30)
Summary: CVE-2016-5351 wireshark: IEEE 802.11 dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2016-30)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-5351
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 12:39:18 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 12:12:38 UTC 
It was reported that Wireshark's IEEE 802.11 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.

Upstream bug(s):

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11585

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-30.html
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 12:28:44 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1343978]
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-06-09 14:35:01 UTC 
CVE assignment:

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

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/9b0b20b8d5f8c9f7839d58ff6c5900f7e19283b4
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