Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting wireshark package, versions [0.9.2,1.2.4]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.72% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2317999
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed21 Dec 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Dec 2009

CVE-2009-4377  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for wireshark.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The (1) SMB and (2) SMB2 dissectors in Wireshark 0.9.0 through 1.2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted packet that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by fuzz-2009-12-07-11141.pcap.

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