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CVE-2020-15466

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-07-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.4, the GVCP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gvcp.c by ensuring that an offset increases in all situations.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 3.2.0 through 3.2.4

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00026.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00038.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16029
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11f40896b696e4e8c7f8b2ad96028404a83a51a4
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-09.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00026.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00038.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16029
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11f40896b696e4e8c7f8b2ad96028404a83a51a4
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html

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