VDB
CVE-2020-17498
CVE-2020-17498
PUBLISHED
CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM
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.
EPSS 2.58% · 84.9th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
2.58%
84.9th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS | wireshark | 0, 3.0.5-1, 3.0.7-1 |
Timeline
- Aug 12, 2020 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 28, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 9, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 11, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-17498 advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6262-1 advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672 third-party-advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b third-party-advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-17498 third-party-advisory