PT-2009-6499 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Published 2009-12-21 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2009-4377

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 0.9.0 through 1.2.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, via a crafted packet that triggers a NULL pointer dereference. This can be achieved by exploiting the SMB and SMB2 dissectors in the affected software.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 0.9.0 through 1.2.4, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-4377

DSA-1983-1

RHSA-2010:0360

RHSA-2010_0360

Affected Products

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 28

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/misc/wireshark_lwres_getaddrbyname.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/misc/wireshark_lwres_getaddrbyname_loop.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/37407 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4301 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4377 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37842 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01248.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-09.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4377 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4377 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-4377 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1983 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:031 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-01453 · Security Note