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Alpine: multiple wireshark packages, tshark: security update to 3.2.6-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427685

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2020-17498)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-17498

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427685

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17498

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-17498

IAVB: 2020-B-0048-S