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Vulnerability · Published May 19, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-13164

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the wireshark package (Alpine). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.0% (higher than 87% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)3.0%top 12.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.3, 3.0.0 to 3.0.10, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.16, the NFS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c by preventing excessive recursion, such as for a cycle in the directory graph on a filesystem.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20wireshark3.2.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-13164
Alpine:v3.21wireshark3.2.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-13164
Alpine:v3.22wireshark3.2.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-13164
Alpine:v3.23wireshark3.2.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-13164
Alpine:v3.24wireshark3.2.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-13164
Debian:12wireshark3.2.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13164
Debian:13wireshark3.2.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13164
Debian:14wireshark3.2.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13164

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References