CVE-2009-3549

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-3549
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-10-30 20:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 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

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Wireshark · wnpa-sec-2009-07 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.wireshark.org Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Wireshark · Wireshark 1.2.3 Release Notes af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.wireshark.org Patch
Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Wireshark 1.2.2 and 1.0.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
3689 – Possibly-unaligned dereference in packet-paltalk.c af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.wireshark.org
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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