CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-3242

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2009-09-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2009-09-18
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in packet.c in the GSM A RR dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unknown vectors related to "an uninitialized dissector handle," which triggers an assertion failure.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark 1.2.0 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/36754 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37409 secunia.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36408 Exploit
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html www.wireshark.org
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.html Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3893 bugs.wireshark.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5423 oval.cisecurity.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/36754 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37409 secunia.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36408 Exploit
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html www.wireshark.org
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.html Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3893 bugs.wireshark.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5423 oval.cisecurity.org