CVE-2020-9428

wireshark: injecting a malformed packet may cause the EAP dissector to crash due to out-of-bounds read

Published Feb 27, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 3.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0 to 3.0.8, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.14, the EAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-eap.c by using more careful sscanf parsing.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2547-1 wireshark security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-30248 In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0 to 3.0.8, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.14, the EAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-eap.c by using more careful sscanf parsing.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.07001}

epss

{'score': 0.08184}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 10:26 AM
Reserved
Feb 27, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 27, 2020, 11:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:27 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Feb 26, 2020, 12:00 AM