Vulnerability CVE-2020-15466
Published: 2020-07-05

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.

Type:

CWE-835

 (Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Wireshark -> Wireshark 

 References:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16029
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=11f40896b696e4e8c7f8b2ad96028404a83a51a4
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-09.html
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