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DEBIAN-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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 wireshark

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.6-1"}]}]

Debian:13 wireshark

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.6-1"}]}]

Debian:14 wireshark

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.6-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org