Bug 1697961 (CVE-2019-10897) - CVE-2019-10897 wireshark: IEEE 802.11 dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-11 )
Summary: CVE-2019-10897 wireshark: IEEE 802.11 dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-10897
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: 1697962
Blocks: 1697993
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Reported: 2019-04-09 11:11 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:07 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: wireshark 3.0.1
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Last Closed: 2019-05-16 08:17:38 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2019-04-09 11:11:30 UTC 
It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. 

External Referencies:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-11.html

Upstream bug(s):
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15553
Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2019-04-09 11:11:44 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1697962]
Comment 2 Riccardo Schirone 2019-05-16 08:07:39 UTC 
Upstream patch:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=355fe663408695e4191fde9404cc97bd41f6834d
Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2019-05-16 08:17:41 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as they did not include the vulnerable functions.
Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2019-05-16 09:47:34 UTC 
External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-11.html
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