CVE-2009-3829
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 6.1%EU EUVD
Integer overflow in wiretap/erf.c in Wireshark before 1.2.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted erf file, related to an "unsigned integer wrap vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 6.1% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3800)
- Published
- October 30, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3800 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
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and 3 more…
References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/erf.c?view=markup&pathrev=29364(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37409
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37477
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1942
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/676492(Patch, US Government Resource)
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3849
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5979
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9945
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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