CVE-2020-17498

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2020-17498 · Published 13/08/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-17498 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting zfs storage appliance kit (oracle), wireshark (wireshark).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.2.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
zfs storage appliance kit oracle	`= 8.8`	No fix yet
wireshark wireshark	`≥ 3.2.0, < 3.2.6`	`3.2.6`

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.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html · Mailing List
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AII7UYDPNKYE75AZL45M6HAV2COP7F6S
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7LO7DAPN33FL4JQ7DDPB76SIEFGMZSQ
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14 · Third Party Advisory
oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html · Patch
wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html · Vendor Advisory

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