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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-17498: Double Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-17498: Double Free

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/13/2020
Created
09/24/2020
Added
09/23/2020
Modified
10/02/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark

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