CVE-2009-3242

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Wireshark

First reported 15 years ago

2009-09-18 10:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-19 01:29:00

Affected Software

Wireshark 1.2.0

1.2.0

Wireshark 1.2.1

1.2.1

References

36754

Vendor Advisory

37409

36408

Exploit

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.html

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3893

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5423

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