CVE-2009-2562

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the AFS dissector in Wireshark 0.9.2 through 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 0.9.2, 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.10 (+24)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/35884
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/2009/09/17/15
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/18/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35748
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1970
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.0.9.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-05.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3564

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