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FKIE_CVE-2009-3829

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-10-30 20:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:12
Severity
Summary
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."
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/erf.c?view=markup&pathrev=29364Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/37409
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/37477
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1942
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/676492Patch, US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3849
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5979
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9945
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/erf.c?view=markup&pathrev=29364Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/37409
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/37477
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1942
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/676492Patch, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3849
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5979
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9945

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}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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