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A wireshark-cli security update has been released for Arch Linux.



ASA-202011-13: wireshark-cli: denial of service


Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202011-13
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Severity: Low
Date : 2020-11-17
CVE-ID : CVE-2020-28030
Package : wireshark-cli
Type : denial of service
Remote : Yes
Link :   https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1258

Summary
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The package wireshark-cli before version 3.4.0-1 is vulnerable to
denial of service.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 3.4.0-1.

# pacman -Syu "wireshark-cli>=3.4.0-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 3.4.0.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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A resource exhaustion issue has been found in the GQUIC decoder of
Wireshark before 3.2.8.

Impact
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A remote attacker might be able to crash Wireshark via a crafted
network capture file or packet.

References
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  https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-15.html
  https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/16887
  https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/b287e7165e8aa89cde6ae37e7c257c5d87d16b9b
  https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-28030