CVE-2020-17498

Description

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 Information

Base Score
6.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.23

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-17498 are fixed in Wireshark (3.2.6)Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-17498 are fixed in Wireshark (X64) (3.2.6)Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-17498 are affected in WireShark For Mac 3.2.5Mac

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-315515Wireshark (3.2.6)
PATCH-315516Wireshark (X64) (3.2.6)
PATCH-611905WireShark for Mac (Apple Silicon) (4.4.9)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234