CVE-2009-3549 (GCVE-0-2009-3549)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-10-30 20:05 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:31
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/37409 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL |
| http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-07.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/37175 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2009-10-26 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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