| Name | CVE-2020-17498 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 3.4.16-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 4.4.0-1 | fixed |
| sid | 4.4.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| wireshark | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 3.2.6-1 | | | |
Notes
[buster] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable compose_tvb code not present)
[stretch] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable compose_tvb code not present)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html