CVE-2020-9429
High
CVE-2020-9429
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, the WireGuard dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wireguard.c by handling the situation where a certain data structure intentionally has a NULL value.
Exploit probability
1.5%
Published
February 27, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
5 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-9429
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In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, the WireGuard dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wireguard.c by handling the situation where a certain data structure intentionally has a NULL value.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16394
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=73c5fff899f253c44a72657048aec7db6edee571
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2530f740d67d41908e84434bb5ec99480c2ac2e
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-06.html