CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13164
CWE-ID: CWE-400 – Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (‘Resource Exhaustion’)
Exploit availability: No
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in NFS dissector. A remote attacker can inject a malformed packet onto the wire or trick a victim to read a malformed packet trace file and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Mitigation
Install updates from vendor’s website.
Vulnerable software versions
Wireshark: 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.6.12, 2.6.13, 2.6.14, 2.6.15, 2.6.16, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3
Information security specialist, currently working as risk infrastructure specialist & investigator.
15 years of experience in risk and control process, security audit support, business continuity design and support, workgroup management and information security standards.
