Use of Externally-Controlled Format String Affecting freebsd package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2382890
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed16 Feb 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Feb 2009

CVE-2009-0601  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-134  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Externally-Controlled Format String. Format string vulnerability in Wireshark 0.99.8 through 1.0.5 on non-Windows platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in the HOME environment variable.

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