CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-9429
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, the WireGuard dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wireguard.c by handling the situation where a certain data structure intentionally has a NULL value.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (>= 3.2.0 <= 3.2.1)
• opensuse leap 15.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16394 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=73c5fff899f253c44a72657048aec7db6edee571 code.wireshark.org
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2530f740d67d41908e84434bb5ec99480c2ac2e code.wireshark.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-06.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16394 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=73c5fff899f253c44a72657048aec7db6edee571 code.wireshark.org
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2530f740d67d41908e84434bb5ec99480c2ac2e code.wireshark.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-06.html Vendor Advisory