Re: CVE Request -- wireshark (X >= 1.6.8): DoS (excessive CPU use and infinite loop) in DRDA dissector

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 08/31/2012 05:39 PM, Gerald Combs wrote:
> On 8/31/12 3:48 AM, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> > Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> > > a denial of service flaw was found in the way Distributed
> > > Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) dissector of Wireshark,
> > > a network traffic analyzer, performed processing of certain
> > > DRDA packet capture files. A remote attacker could create a
> > > specially-crafted capture file that, when opened could lead to
> > > wireshark executable to consume excessive amount of CPU time
> > > and hang with an infinite loop.
> > [...]
> > > Affected versions: Seems to affect wireshark 1.6.x versions
> > > and later (1.0.x and 1.2.x definitely aren't affected)
> >
> > 1.5.x is affected too: 1.5.0 was the first release in which the 
> > handling for the multiple DRDA commands was added to.  1.4 has
> > no such code, whereas 1.5.0 has the while loop that provokes
> > DoS.
>
> Note that 1.5.0 wasn't an official release. Odd-numbered minor
> revisions are development releases preceding the next even-numbered
> (and official) release.

But was it released and people downloaded it? If so it qualifies.
Unless it's like an internal beta or not released at all it counts as
software (otherwise Google Chrome beta and so on would never get a CVE
=).

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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