NetSight
medium6.5

CVE-2020-17498

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.5, the Kafka protocol dissector could crash.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
WiresharkWireshark
from 3.2.0 before 3.2.6
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 31, 32
OpensuseLeap
Versions 15.1, 15.2
OracleZfs Storage Appliance Kit
Version 8.8

Weakness classification

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