https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1124500
--- Comment #5 from Siddharth Sharma sisharma@redhat.com --- Explanation:
Wireshark crashed before it hits the function in cairo because the the higher value inside the text box in wireshark -> Statistics -> IP Addresses or IP Destination cause the window to be painted much bigger than the Main X Window and it crashes which is right on part of Window Manager Implementation and X Window System. It doesnt affect linux system as descrbed in the CVE-2014-5116 assigned.Wireshark should be sanitizing the input from:
wireshark -> Statistics -> IP Destination wireshark -> Statistics -> IP Addresses
Things like this are supposed to be taken care by the application by itself.
In the process of reproducing this issue this resulted in
(wireshark:9541): Gdk-WARNING **: Native Windows wider or taller than 32767 pixels are not supported (wireshark:9541): Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'wireshark' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 192739 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)