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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2020-17498: Vulnerability in Wireshark

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2020-17498: Vulnerability in Wireshark

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/13/2020
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-3-2-6-11-4-25-0-1-75-3
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-tshark-3-2-6-11-4-25-0-1-75-3
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-wireshark-common-3-2-6-11-4-25-0-1-75-3

References

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