CVE-2020-11647
High
CVE-2020-11647
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.2, 3.0.0 to 3.0.9, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.15, the BACapp dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bacapp.c by limiting the amount of recursion.
Exploit probability
3.3%
Published
April 10, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
84 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-11647
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In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.2, 3.0.0 to 3.0.9, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.15, the BACapp dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bacapp.c by limiting the amount of recursion.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- 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=16474
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6f56fc9496db158218243ea87e3660c874a0bab0
- 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-2020-07.html