CVE-2020-17498

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-415

Affected software

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

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.htmlVendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.htmlVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 13, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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