CVE-2020-9429 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2020-9429?

CVE-2020-9429 is a high-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 27 Feb 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, the WireGuard dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wireguard.c by handling the situation where a certain data structure intentionally has a NULL value.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-9429?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2020-9429?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-9429 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-9429 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

• CVE-2015-4902 Oracle Java SE Integrity Check Exploited Medium 5.3
• CVE-2017-14804 package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area Critical 9.9
• CVE-2019-20787 Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8341 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6438 Other in n/a Critical 9.8

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9429, GHSA-hm4c-x6v5-6m98.