CVE-2020-17498

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

EPSS

3%p84

Published

Aug 13, 2020 (Aug 13, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: wireshark fedoraproject opensuse oracle
Products: wireshark, fedora, leap, zfs storage appliance kit
Weakness: CWE-415
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (2.6%)

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