KLA10851
Denial of service vulnerabilities in Wireshark

Multiple different vulnerabilities were found in Wireshark. By exploiting these vulnerabilities malicious users can cause denial of service. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet or file.

Technical details

WBXML dissector epan/dissectors/packet-wbxml.c mishandles offsets;

Ethernet dissector epan/dissectors/packet-pktap.c mishandles the packet-header data type;

NetScreen file parser wiretap/netscreen.c mishandles sscanf unsigned-integer processing;

CoSine file parser wiretap/cosine.c mishandles sscanf unsigned-integer;

Toshiba file parser wiretap/toshiba.c mishandles sscanf unsigned-integer processing;

USB subsystem mishandles class types;

UMTS FP dissector epan/dissectors/packet-umts_fp.c mishandles the reserved C/T value;

IEEE 802.11 dissector epan/crypt/airpdcap.c mishandles certain length values and lack of an EAPOL_RSN_KEY;

SPOOLS component epan/dissectors/packet-dcerpc-spoolss.c mishandles unexpected offsets;

WBXML dissector epan/dissectors/packet-wbxml.c does not restrict the recursion depth;

MMSE, WAP, WBXML, and WSP dissectors epan/dissectors/packet-wap.c omits an overflow check in the tvb_get_guintvar function;

RLC dissector epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c contains Off-by-one error;

LDSS dissector epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c mishandles conversations;

RLC dissector epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c contains Off-by-one error;

LDSS dissector epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c mishandles conversations;

RLC dissector epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c uses an incorrect integer data type;

NDS dissector epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc does not properly maintain a ptvc data structure;

CORBA IDL dissectors in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 on 64-bit Windows platforms do not properly interact with Visual C++ compiler options;

These vulnerabilities also related to PacketBB, WSP, MMSE dissectors and epan/proto.c;

Wireshark 1.12 versions earlier than 1.12.13
Wireshark 2 versions earlier than 2.0.5

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Wireshark security advisories

The following public exploits exists for this vulnerability:

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40195

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40197

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40194

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40196