[ASA-202011-13] wireshark-cli: denial of service

Morten Linderud foxboron at archlinux.org
Thu Nov 26 19:35:36 UTC 2020


Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202011-13
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Severity: Low
Date    : 2020-11-17
CVE-ID  : CVE-2020-28030
Package : wireshark-cli
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1258

Summary
=======

The package wireshark-cli before version 3.4.0-1 is vulnerable to
denial of service.

Resolution
==========

Upgrade to 3.4.0-1.

# pacman -Syu "wireshark-cli>=3.4.0-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 3.4.0.

Workaround
==========

None.

Description
===========

A resource exhaustion issue has been found in the GQUIC decoder of
Wireshark before 3.2.8.

Impact
======

A remote attacker might be able to crash Wireshark via a crafted
network capture file or packet.

References
==========

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-15.html
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/16887
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/b287e7165e8aa89cde6ae37e7c257c5d87d16b9b
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-28030
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