CVE-2020-15466

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.4, the GVCP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gvcp.c by ensuring that an offset increases in all situations.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-835

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00026.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16029Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11f40896b696e4e8c7f8b2ad96028404a83a51a4
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13Third Party Advisory
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-09.htmlVendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00026.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16029Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11f40896b696e4e8c7f8b2ad96028404a83a51a4
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13Third Party Advisory
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-09.htmlVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 5, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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