Base Score

MEDIUM6.5

CVE-2020-17498

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.

VectorNETWORK

Published Bycve@mitre.org

Published DateAug 13, 2020, 16:15

Weakness Type (CWE):CWE-415

CVSS Metrics

Base Score

6.5

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Base Severity

MEDIUM

Version

3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

NETWORK

Attack Complexity (AC)

LOW

Privileges Required (PR)

NONE

User Interaction (UI)

REQUIRED

Scope (S)

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality (C)

NONE

Integrity (I)

NONE

Availability (A)

HIGH

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AII7UYDPNKYE75AZL45M6HAV2COP7F6S/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7LO7DAPN33FL4JQ7DDPB76SIEFGMZSQ/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html

Base Score

MEDIUM6.5

Weakness Type (CWE):CWE-415

CVSS Metrics

Base Score

6.5

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Base Severity

MEDIUM

Version

3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

NETWORK

Attack Complexity (AC)

LOW

Privileges Required (PR)

NONE

User Interaction (UI)

REQUIRED

Scope (S)

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality (C)

NONE

Integrity (I)

NONE

Availability (A)

HIGH