DEBIAN-CVE-2020-17498

DEBIAN-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.

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

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:14	wireshark	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	wireshark	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	wireshark	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	wireshark	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Aug 13, 2020 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-17498 advisory

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