Vulnerability in Wireshark
CVE-2009-3242
Unspecified vulnerability in packet.c in the GSM A RR dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unknown vectors related to "an uninitialized dissector handle," which triggers an assertion failure.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.078 (94.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.078 · newest: 0.078 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 1.2.0, 1.2.1
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/36408 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.html (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/36754 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/37409 (third-party-advisory)
- www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5423 (signature, vdb-entry)