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Ubuntu: USN-6262-1 (CVE-2020-15466): Wireshark vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 5, 2020
Added
Aug 1, 2023
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.4, the GVCP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gvcp.c by ensuring that an offset increases in all situations.

Solutions

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