Out-of-bounds Read Affecting wireshark package, versions [2.6.0,2.6.15)[3.0.0,3.0.9)[3.2.0,3.2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318408
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed27 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-9428  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.6.15, 3.0.9, 3.2.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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

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