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Vulnerability · Published Feb 27, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-9431

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 2.7% (higher than 86% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)2.7%top 13.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0 to 3.0.8, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.14, the LTE RRC dissector could leak memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-lte-rrc.c by adjusting certain append operations.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20wireshark3.2.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-9431
Alpine:v3.21wireshark3.2.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-9431
Alpine:v3.22wireshark3.2.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-9431
Alpine:v3.23wireshark3.2.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-9431
Alpine:v3.24wireshark3.2.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-9431
Debian:12wireshark3.2.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9431
Debian:13wireshark3.2.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9431
Debian:14wireshark3.2.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9431

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References