CVE-2009-2560

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark 1.2.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a file that records a malformed packet trace and is processed by the (1) Bluetooth L2CAP, (2) RADIUS, or (3) MIOP dissector. NOTE: it was later reported that the RADIUS issue also affects 0.10.13 through 1.0.9.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+5)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/35884
http://secunia.com/advisories/37175
http://secunia.com/advisories/37409
http://secunia.com/advisories/37477
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1942
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:194
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/22/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35748
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36846
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1970
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3061
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.0.10.html

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