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.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7LO7DAPN33FL4JQ7DDPB76SIEFGMZSQ/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AII7UYDPNKYE75AZL45M6HAV2COP7F6S/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0023
EPSS Percentile
45.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-415
Status
published
Products (6)
fedoraproject/fedora
31
fedoraproject/fedora
32
opensuse/leap
15.1
opensuse/leap
15.2
oracle/zfs_storage_appliance_kit
8.8
wireshark/wireshark
3.2.0 - 3.2.6
Published
Aug 13, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026