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Vulnerability · Published Aug 13, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-17498

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-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 2.6% (higher than 85% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)2.6%top 14.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.5, the Kafka protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-kafka.c by avoiding a double free during LZ4 decompression.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20wireshark3.2.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-17498
Alpine:v3.21wireshark3.2.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-17498
Alpine:v3.22wireshark3.2.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-17498
Alpine:v3.23wireshark3.2.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-17498
Alpine:v3.24wireshark3.2.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-17498
Debian:12wireshark3.2.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-17498
Debian:13wireshark3.2.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-17498
Debian:14wireshark3.2.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-17498

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References