Bug 1565751 (CVE-2018-9264) - CVE-2018-9264 wireshark: memory leak in ui/failure_message.c
Summary: CVE-2018-9264 wireshark: memory leak in ui/failure_message.c
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-9264
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1565723 1565732 1575740
Blocks: 1565716
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-10 16:44 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:37 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: wireshark 2.4.6, wireshark 2.2.14
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Last Closed: 2018-05-07 18:47:13 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 16:44:16 UTC 
A flaw was found in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, ui/failure_message.c has a memory leak.


References:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-24.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14489

Patch:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=211845aba4794720ae265c782cdffddae54a3e7a
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f38e895dfc0d97bce64f73ce99df706911d9aa07
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 16:45:44 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1565723]
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