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CVE-2020-15466

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Description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.4, the GVCP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gvcp.c by ensuring that an offset increases in all situations.

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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00038.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00026.html

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-09.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11f40896b696e4e8c7f8b2ad96028404a83a51a4

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16029

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-07-05

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00418

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