CVE-2009-0599
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.6%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in wiretap/netscreen.c in Wireshark 0.99.7 through 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed NetScreen snoop file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 2.6% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0602)
- Published
- February 16, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0602 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html
- http://osvdb.org/51815
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33872(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34144
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34264
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34344
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0040
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501763/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33690(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021697
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0370
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2590(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2984
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14732
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9677
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00652.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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