CVE-2020-17498

Published: 13 August 2020

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.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
wireshark Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	focal	Released (3.2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro
	impish	Not vulnerable (3.2.6-1)
	kinetic	Not vulnerable (3.2.6-1)
	lunar	Not vulnerable (3.2.6-1)
	bionic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	groovy	Not vulnerable (3.2.6-1)
	hirsute	Not vulnerable (3.2.6-1)
	jammy	Not vulnerable (3.2.6-1)
	trusty	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	upstream	Released (3.2.6-1)
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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