CVE-2020-28030

wireshark: malformed packet on wire could make GQUIC protocol dissector loop

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 30, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.7, the GQUIC dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gquic.c by correcting the implementation of offset advancement.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')