National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2560
Original release date:07/21/2009
Last revised:12/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark 1.2.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a file that records a malformed packet trace and is processed by the (1) Bluetooth L2CAP, (2) RADIUS, or (3) MIOP dissector. NOTE: it was later reported that the RADIUS issue also affects 0.10.13 through 1.0.9.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
Official Statement from Red Hat (08/12/2009)
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2560
Vectors (1) Bluetooth L2CAP and (3) MIOP did not affect the versions of the Wireshark package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 35748
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: wireshark-radius-dissector-dos(54019)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-08.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.0.10.html
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-3061
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1970
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 36846
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20090722 Re: CVE request: Wireshark <1.2.1 Multiple DoS
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:194
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1942
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37477
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37409
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37175
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35884
Type: Advisory