CVE-2009-3549

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-3549
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-10-30 20:30:00 UTC
Updated2017-09-19 01:29:00 UTC
Descriptionpacket-paltalk.c in the Paltalk dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.2, on SPARC and certain other platforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a file that records a malformed packet trace.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Sun Sparc All All All All
Hardware Sun Sparc All All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.2 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.2.0 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.2.1 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.2 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.2.0 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.2.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Security Alerts - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
3689 – Possibly-unaligned dereference in packet-paltalk.c CONFIRM bugs.wireshark.org
Wireshark 1.2.2 and 1.0.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Patch
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Wireshark · wnpa-sec-2009-07 CONFIRM www.wireshark.org Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Wireshark · Wireshark 1.2.3 Release Notes CONFIRM www.wireshark.org Patch
Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-11-02Tomas HogerNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.
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