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
2026-03-15T22:34:44.868083Z
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"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17498.json"
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"
            }
        ]
    }
]