FKIE_CVE-2020-9428

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-02-27 23:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:27
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16397Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9fe2de783dbcbe74144678d60a4e3923367044b2
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DZBICEY2HGSNQ3RPBLMDDYVAHGOGS4E2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDVMBCADP73TBISYCS6ARKOSNNJOGXXZ/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XN2GMGLT5XND7U34WX3O23WKUZ7JHMVN/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-05.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16397Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9fe2de783dbcbe74144678d60a4e3923367044b2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DZBICEY2HGSNQ3RPBLMDDYVAHGOGS4E2/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDVMBCADP73TBISYCS6ARKOSNNJOGXXZ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XN2GMGLT5XND7U34WX3O23WKUZ7JHMVN/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-05.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wireshark wireshark *
wireshark wireshark *
wireshark wireshark *
debian debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject fedora 30
fedoraproject fedora 31
fedoraproject fedora 32
opensuse leap 15.1
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:27:55.967",
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