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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113746
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Wireshark Security Update (wnpa-sec-2020-10) - Mac OS X
Summary:Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The vulnerability exists because of a double free during LZ4
decompression in epan/dissectors/packet-kafka.c.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to crash the
application.

Affected Software/OS:
Wireshark version 3.2.0 through 3.2.5.

Solution:
Update to version 3.2.6.

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-17498
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7LO7DAPN33FL4JQ7DDPB76SIEFGMZSQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AII7UYDPNKYE75AZL45M6HAV2COP7F6S/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:1878 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:1882 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html
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