Invalid Memory Read in Wireshark

vendor:

Wireshark

by:

Project Zero

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

SIGSEGV Crash

119

CWE

Product Name: Wireshark

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2016

Invalid Memory Read in Wireshark

The SIGSEGV crash due to an invalid memory read can be observed in an ASAN build of Wireshark (current git master), by feeding a malformed file to tshark. The crash was reported at https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12352. Attached are three files which trigger the crash.

Mitigation:

The user should ensure that the file being fed to tshark is not malformed.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=803

The following SIGSEGV crash due to an invalid memory read can be observed in an ASAN build of Wireshark (current git master), by feeding a malformed file to tshark ("$ ./tshark -nVxr /path/to/file"):

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==28415==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x61b000022d84 (pc 0x7f0e1b0002a2 bp 0x7ffde25a76f0 sp 0x7ffde25a7630 T0)
    #0 0x7f0e1b0002a1 in erf_meta_read_tag wireshark/wiretap/erf.c:1242:13
    #1 0x7f0e1afff0f0 in populate_summary_info wireshark/wiretap/erf.c:1851:27
    #2 0x7f0e1aff34d6 in erf_read wireshark/wiretap/erf.c:447:7
    #3 0x7f0e1b1a746b in wtap_read wireshark/wiretap/wtap.c:1245:7
    #4 0x528196 in load_cap_file wireshark/tshark.c:3478:12
    #5 0x51e67c in main wireshark/tshark.c:2192:13

AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV wireshark/wiretap/erf.c:1242:13 in erf_meta_read_tag
==28415==ABORTING
--- cut ---

The crash was reported at https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12352. Attached are three files which trigger the crash.


Proof of Concept:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/39877.zip