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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-17498): Wireshark vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-17498): Wireshark vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/13/2020
Created
08/02/2023
Added
08/01/2023
Modified
08/01/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libwireshark13
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tshark
  • ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
  • ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark-common
  • ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark-gtk
  • ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark-qt

References

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