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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-9428: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 27, 2020
Added
Jul 28, 2020
Modified
Mar 31, 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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-analyzer-wireshark
Title
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