Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting wireshark package, versions <3.2.2-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-WIRESHARK-1562890
  • published28 Feb 2020
  • disclosed27 Feb 2020

Introduced: 27 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-9428  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 wireshark to version 3.2.2-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wireshark package and not the wireshark package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1