CVE-2009-3829

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% 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-189

Description

Integer overflow in wiretap/erf.c in Wireshark before 1.2.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted erf file, related to an "unsigned integer wrap vulnerability."

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: through 1.2.1; 0.6, 0.7.9, 0.8.16, 0.8.19, 0.8.20, 0.9.2 (+46)

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/erf.c?view=markup&pathrev=29364
http://secunia.com/advisories/37409
http://secunia.com/advisories/37477
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1942
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/676492
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3849
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5979
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9945
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/erf.c?view=markup&pathrev=29364
http://secunia.com/advisories/37409
http://secunia.com/advisories/37477

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