Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2020-13164 |
CWE-ID | CWE-400 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Wireshark Server applications / IDS/IPS systems, Firewalls and proxy servers |
Vendor | Wireshark.org |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU28181
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1:
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13164
CWE-ID:
CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in NFS dissector. A remote attacker can inject a malformed packet onto the wire or trick a victim to read a malformed packet trace file and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
MitigationInstall updates from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsWireshark: 3.2.0 - 3.2.3, 3.0.0 - 3.0.9, 2.6.0 - 2.6.16
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-08.html
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16476
http://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=e6e98eab8e5e0bbc982cfdc808f2469d7cab6c5a
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