CVE-2020-13164
High
CVE-2020-13164
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.3, 3.0.0 to 3.0.10, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.16, the NFS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c by preventing excessive recursion, such as for a cycle in the directory graph on a filesystem.
Exploit probability
2.9%
Published
May 19, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
93 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-13164
View original source
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.3, 3.0.0 to 3.0.10, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.16, the NFS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c by preventing excessive recursion, such as for a cycle in the directory graph on a filesystem.
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=16476
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e6e98eab8e5e0bbc982cfdc808f2469d7cab6c5a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5UOISPQTRCZGQLKBVXEDL72AEXEHS425/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DNV3EYL4JBWCR22TJO3PH7ADUVS5RWSU/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-08.html