CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-13164

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: May 19, 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
Ubuntu

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.

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) 2.6.16 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 3.0.0 (including) 3.0.10 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 3.2.0 (including) 3.2.3 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References