CVE-2020-17498: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 31 only; version 32 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only
• Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Kit: version 8.8 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: from 3.2.0, before 3.2.6 (fixed in 3.2.6)

Published 2020-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.