36754Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/36754 CVE-2009-3242
Wireshark 1.2.1 - GSM A RR Dissector packet.c Remote Denial of Service
Record summary
CVE-2009-3242 has a selected CVSS score of 5.0; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
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.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBWireshark 1.2.1 - GSM A RR Dissector packet.c Remote Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby Buildbot BuilderNot analyzed1 file
References
837409Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37409 36408vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36408 wireshark.orgConfirmation
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html wireshark.orgConfirmation
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.html bugs.wireshark.org
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3893 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3242 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5423vdb entrysignature
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5423