CVE-2020-17498

medium

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.

References

Advisories
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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7LO7DAPN33FL4JQ7DDPB76SIEFGMZSQ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AII7UYDPNKYE75AZL45M6HAV2COP7F6S/

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-13

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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