In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.5, the Kafka protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-kafka.c by avoiding a double free during LZ4 decompression.
Weakness
The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wireshark | Wireshark | 3.2.0 (including) | 3.2.6 (excluding) |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | esm-apps/focal | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
Potential Mitigations
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AII7UYDPNKYE75AZL45M6HAV2COP7F6S/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7LO7DAPN33FL4JQ7DDPB76SIEFGMZSQ/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00035.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00038.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=76afda963de4f0b9be24f2d8e873990a5cbf221b
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AII7UYDPNKYE75AZL45M6HAV2COP7F6S/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7LO7DAPN33FL4JQ7DDPB76SIEFGMZSQ/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-14
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-10.html