CVE-2020-15466
High
CVE-2020-15466
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.
Exploit probability
3.0%
Published
July 5, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
14 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-15466
View original source
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.
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=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