UBUNTU-CVE-2020-9428
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-9428
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-9428.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-9428
- Upstream
- Published
- 2020-02-27T23:15:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-18T16:45:46Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Ubuntu - low
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0 to 3.0.8, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.14, the EAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-eap.c by using more careful sscanf parsing.
- References
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- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-9428
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-05.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16397
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=9fe2de783dbcbe74144678d60a4e3923367044b2
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-9428
Affected packages
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / wireshark
Package
- Name
- wireshark
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/wireshark@2.6.10-1~ubuntu14.04.0~esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / wireshark
Package
- Name
- wireshark
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/wireshark@2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0+esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial
Affected ranges
- Type
- ECOSYSTEM
- Events
-
Introduced0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Affected versions
1.*
1.12.7+g7fc8978-1
1.12.8+g5b6e543-2
2.*
2.0.1+g59ea380-3build1
2.0.2+ga16e22e-1
2.2.6+g32dac6a-2ubuntu0.16.04
2.6.3-1~ubuntu16.04.1
2.6.4-2~ubuntu16.04.0
2.6.5-1~ubuntu16.04.0
2.6.6-1~ubuntu16.04.0
2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0
2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0+esm1
2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0+esm2