Wireshark 1.5.0, 1.4.3, and earlier frees an uninitialized pointer during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file.
The crash may be exploitable. There is some updated patch in the upstream bug https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652
Wireshark-1.4.4 has been released. This addresses this issue, Bug 355335 (CVE-2011-0713) and three more. Details from http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html: * Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that Wireshark could free an uninitialized pointer while reading a malformed pcap-ng file. (Bug 5652) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. CVE-2011-0538 * Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a large packet length in a pcap-ng file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5661) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. * Wireshark could overflow a buffer while reading a Nokia DCT3 trace file. Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. CVE-2011-0713 * Paul Makowski working for SEI/CERT discovered that Wireshark on 32 bit systems could crash while reading a malformed 6LoWPAN packet. (Bug 5722) Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. * joernchen of Phenoelit discovered that the LDAP and SMB dissectors could overflow the stack. (Bug 5717) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. (Prior versions including 1.0.x are also affected.) * Xiaopeng Zhang of Fortinet's Fortiguard Labs discovered that large LDAP Filter strings can consume excessive amounts of memory. (Bug 5732) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. (Prior versions including 1.0.x are also affected.)
*** Bug 355335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The status whiteboard got corrupted at some point, B12 is not a valid rating.
New version is in the tree. Arch teams, please, stabilize wireshark-1.4.4.
amd64 done
posted: bug 358097 bug 358099 bug 358101 add as a block if is necessary, Whereas it is a security stabilization thanks
x86 done. Thanks.
Stable for HPPA.
alpha/ia64/sparc stable
ppc/ppc64 stable, last arch done
Thanks, everyone. GLSA request filed.
CVE-2011-1143 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1143): epan/dissectors/packet-ntlmssp.c in the NTLMSSP dissector in Wireshark before 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted .pcap file. CVE-2011-1142 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1142): Stack consumption vulnerability in the dissect_ber_choice function in the BER dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x through 1.2.15 and 1.4.x through 1.4.4 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving self-referential ASN.1 CHOICE values. CVE-2011-1141 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1141): epan/dissectors/packet-ldap.c in Wireshark 1.0.x, 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via (1) a long LDAP filter string or (2) an LDAP filter string containing many elements. CVE-2011-1140 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1140): Multiple stack consumption vulnerabilities in the dissect_ms_compressed_string and dissect_mscldap_string functions in Wireshark 1.0.x, 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted (1) SMB or (2) Connection-less LDAP (CLDAP) packet. CVE-2011-1139 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1139): wiretap/pcapng.c in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file that contains a large packet-length field. CVE-2011-1138 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1138): Off-by-one error in the dissect_6lowpan_iphc function in packet-6lowpan.c in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 on 32-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed 6LoWPAN IPv6 packet. CVE-2011-0713 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0713): Heap-based buffer overflow in wiretap/dct3trace.c in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long record in a Nokia DCT3 trace file. CVE-2011-0538 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0538): Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, 1.4.0 through 1.4.3, and 1.5.0 frees an uninitialized pointer during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file.
This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201110-02 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201110-02.xml by GLSA coordinator Alex Legler (a3li).
