Double Free Affecting wireshark package, versions [3.2.0,3.2.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318141
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed13 Aug 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-17498  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 3.2.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free. 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.

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