# CVE-2020-9429: In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, the WireGuard dissector could crash.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-02-27 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16394
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-06.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2530f740d67d41908e84434bb5ec99480c2ac2e
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=73c5fff899f253c44a72657048aec7db6edee571
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13

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