PT-2020-5494 · Wireshark+5 · Wireshark+5

Published 2020-09-30 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2020-25863

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 Wireshark versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.13 Wireshark versions 3.2.0 through 3.2.6

Description The issue exists due to insufficient input validation in Wireshark, which could allow a remote attacker to cause the application to crash. The problem was addressed by correcting the deallocation of invalid MIME parts in the MIME Multipart dissector.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 2.6.0 through 2.6.20, update to a version where the deallocation of invalid MIME parts in the MIME Multipart dissector has been corrected. For Wireshark versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.13, update to a version where the deallocation of invalid MIME parts in the MIME Multipart dissector has been corrected. For Wireshark versions 3.2.0 through 3.2.6, update to a version where the deallocation of invalid MIME parts in the MIME Multipart dissector has been corrected.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-2896

ALT-PU-2020-2943

ALT-PU-2022-1368

BDU:2021-00875

CVE-2020-25863

DLA-2547-1

MGASA-2020-0384

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1878-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1882-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_1878-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_1882-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11513-1

SUSE-SU-2020:3166-1

USN-6262-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Astra Linux

Linuxmint

Suse

Ubuntu

Wireshark

References · 213

• 🔥 https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/16741 · Exploit
• https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15466 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-17498 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IGRYKW4XLR44YDWTAH547ODYYBYPB2D · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-00875 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:1878-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25863 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25863 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:1882-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-25863 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25863 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-25862 · Vendor Advisory