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Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2020-15466)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 5, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An infinite loop has been found in the GVCP dissector of Wireshark before 3.2.5. It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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