CVE-2020-17498

Name
CVE-2020-17498
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Patch https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b
Vendor Advisory https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html
Exploit https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14
FEDORA https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AII7UYDPNKYE75AZL45M6HAV2COP7F6S/
FEDORA https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7LO7DAPN33FL4JQ7DDPB76SIEFGMZSQ/
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html
MISC https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* wireshark >= 3.2.0 < 3.2.6

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status