CVE-2020-25862

Summary

CVECVE-2020-25862
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-06 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:20:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.6, 3.0.0 to 3.0.13, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.20, the TCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c by changing the handling of the invalid 0xFFFF checksum.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-354

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All
Hardware Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Firmware - All All All
Hardware Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Firmware - All All All
Operating System Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Firmware 8.8 All All All
Operating System Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Firmware 8.8 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark All All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark All All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Wireshark · wnpa-sec-2020-12 · TCP dissector crash MISC www.wireshark.org Vendor Advisory
ERROR:epan/proto.c:9868:hfinfo_number_value_format_display: code should not be reached (#16816) · Issues · Wireshark Foundation / wireshark · GitLab MISC gitlab.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
TCP: do not use an unknown status when the checksum is 0xffff (7f3fe616) · Commits · Wireshark Foundation / wireshark · GitLab MISC gitlab.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: wireshark-3.2.7-2.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: wireshark-3.2.7-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: wireshark-3.2.7-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1882-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2547-1] wireshark security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: wireshark-3.2.7-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: wireshark-3.2.7-2.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1878-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: wireshark-3.2.7-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2021 MISC www.oracle.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178650 Debian Security Update for wireshark (DLA 2547-1)
  • 199625 Ubuntu Security Notification for Wireshark Vulnerabilities (USN-6262-1)
  • 296071 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 27.82.1 Missing (CPUOCT2020)
  • 501328 Alpine Linux Security Update for wireshark
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