vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-9428: wireshark: injecting a malformed packet may cause the EAP dissector to crash due to out-of-bounds read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 27, 2020
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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