CVE-2020-15466

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.4, the GVCP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gvcp.c by ensuring that an offset increases in all situations.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15466

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15466.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202007-2

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.2.5-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.2.5-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.2.5-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.2.5-1
debian debiansidfixed3.2.5-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.2.5-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.