CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-11647

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Apr 10, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Wireshark Wireshark 2.6.0 (including) 2.6.15 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 3.0.0 (including) 3.0.9 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 3.2.0 (including) 3.2.2 (including)
Wireshark Ubuntu bionic *
Wireshark Ubuntu eoan *
Wireshark Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Wireshark Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Wireshark Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Wireshark Ubuntu trusty *
Wireshark Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Wireshark Ubuntu upstream *
Wireshark Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References