CVE-2020-17498
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-17498
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17498.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-17498
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2020-08-13T16:15:13.310Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-14T10:54:14.599418Z
- Severity
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- 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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
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- 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/
- 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html