CVE-2020-17498

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-17498
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17498.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-17498
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-08-13T16:15:13.310Z
Modified
2026-04-10T04:23:51.316829Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wireshark/wireshark

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
Events
Introduced
Fixed
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.2.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.2.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "32"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
backups/ethereal@18706
backups/win32-native@18706
ethereal-0-3-15
start
ethereal-0.*
ethereal-0.3.15
v3.*
v3.2.0
v3.2.1
v3.2.1rc0
v3.2.2
v3.2.2rc0
v3.2.3
v3.2.3rc0
v3.2.4
v3.2.4rc0
v3.2.5
v3.2.5rc0
v3.2.6rc0
wireshark-3.*
wireshark-3.2.0
wireshark-3.2.1
wireshark-3.2.2
wireshark-3.2.3
wireshark-3.2.4
wireshark-3.2.5

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "31"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "15.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "15.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.8"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17498.json"