Description
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.3, 3.0.0 to 3.0.10, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.16, the NFS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c by preventing excessive recursion, such as for a cycle in the directory graph on a filesystem.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16476
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-08.html
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e6e98eab8e5e0bbc982cfdc808f2469d7cab6c5a
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5UOISPQTRCZGQLKBVXEDL72AEXEHS425/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DNV3EYL4JBWCR22TJO3PH7ADUVS5RWSU/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00026.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00038.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0188
EPSS Percentile
83.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-674
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
9.0
fedoraproject/fedora
31
fedoraproject/fedora
32
opensuse/leap
15.1
opensuse/leap
15.2
wireshark/wireshark
2.6.0 - 2.6.16
Published
May 19, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026