vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-9428: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 27, 2020
Added
Mar 11, 2020
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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