CVE-2009-3242
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)8%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36754Advisory
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37409
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3893
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5423
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36408Exploit