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CVE-2020-25863

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Description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.6, 3.0.0 to 3.0.13, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.20, the MIME Multipart dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-multipart.c by correcting the deallocation of invalid MIME parts.

References

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https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-11.html

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

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZUHMK5HYTUUDXA64T2TAMAFMYV674QBW/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IGRYKW4XLR44YDWTAH547ODYYBYPB2D/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DQHPKZFQ7W3X34RYN3FWFYCFJD4FXJW/

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

https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/5803c7b87b3414cdb8bf502af50bb406ca774482

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

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

https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/16741

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-10-06

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: 0.00215

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