High
Security advisory
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0 to 3.0.8, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.14, the EAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-eap.c by using more careful sscanf parsing.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-9428
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0 to 3.0.8, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.14, the EAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-eap.c by using more careful sscanf parsing.
osv:CVE-2020-9428
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"references": [
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DZBICEY2HGSNQ3RPBLMDDYVAHGOGS4E2/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDVMBCADP73TBISYCS6ARKOSNNJOGXXZ/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XN2GMGLT5XND7U34WX3O23WKUZ7JHMVN/",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13",
"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-05.html",
"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16397"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-02-27T23:15:12.81+00:00"
}