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Wireshark : CVE-2020-9431 : LTE RRC dissector memory leak

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Wireshark : CVE-2020-9431 : LTE RRC dissector memory leak

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/27/2020
Created
03/03/2020
Added
03/02/2020
Modified
03/02/2020

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 LTE RRC dissector could leak memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-lte-rrc.c by adjusting certain append operations.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-2_6_15
  • wireshark-upgrade-3_0_9
  • wireshark-upgrade-3_2_2

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