CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
65.5%
Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113744");
script_version("2024-07-24T05:06:37+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-07-24 05:06:37 +0000 (Wed, 24 Jul 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-08-17 11:21:47 +0000 (Mon, 17 Aug 2020)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-01-20 15:15:00 +0000 (Wed, 20 Jan 2021)");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-17498");
script_name("Wireshark Security Update (wnpa-sec-2020-10) - Linux");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_lin.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/linux/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The vulnerability exists because of a double free during LZ4
decompression in epan/dissectors/packet-kafka.c.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to crash the
application.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 3.2.0 through 3.2.5.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.2.6.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b");
exit(0);
}
CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";
include( "host_details.inc" );
include( "version_func.inc" );
if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if( version_in_range( version:version, test_version:"3.2.0", test_version2:"3.2.5" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"3.2.6", install_path:location );
security_message( port:0, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
65.5%