Re: CVE request: Wireshark multiple vulnerabilities

[Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas () redhat com>]

On 01/12/2012 05:12 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
On 01/12/2012 05:12 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 09:19 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote:
> > According to secunia advisory: https://secunia.com/advisories/47494/ :
> >
> > Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Wireshark, which can be
> > exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
> > compromise a user's system.
> >
> > 1) NULL pointer dereference errors when reading certain packet information can
> > be exploited to cause a crash.
> >
> > 2) An error within the RLC dissector can be exploited to cause a buffer
> > overflow via a specially crafted RLC packet capture file.
> >
> > and according with upstream advisory:
> >
> > 1)http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-01.html
> > Name: Multiple Wireshark file parser vulnerabilities
> > Description:
> > Laurent Butti discovered that Wireshark failed to properly check record sizes
> > for many packet capture file formats.
> > Impact:
> > It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by convincing someone to read a
> > malformed packet trace file.
> Please use CVE-2012-0041 for this issue

There are 6 file format crashes here. In the interest of vendors, which 
dont always rebase to the newer version, would it be convenient to split 
these into 6 CVEs?

I doubt some older versions are affected by only some crashers.




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Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Security Response Team