CVE-2009-3549

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

packet-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.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/37175
http://secunia.com/advisories/37409
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36846
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3061
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.3.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-07.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3689
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54016
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6391
http://secunia.com/advisories/37175
http://secunia.com/advisories/37409
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36846

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