CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-17498
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.5, the Kafka protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-kafka.c by avoiding a double free during LZ4 decompression.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (>= 3.2.0 < 3.2.6)
• fedoraproject fedora 31
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• opensuse leap 15.1
• opensuse leap 15.2
• oracle zfs storage appliance kit 8.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AII7UYDPNKYE75AZL45M6HAV2COP7F6S/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7LO7DAPN33FL4JQ7DDPB76SIEFGMZSQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AII7UYDPNKYE75AZL45M6HAV2COP7F6S/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7LO7DAPN33FL4JQ7DDPB76SIEFGMZSQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html Vendor Advisory