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wireshark — security advisory
The DCERPC/NT dissector in Wireshark 0.10.10 through 1.0.9 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a file that records a malformed packet trace. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
- Products
- wireshark
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.2.3-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-3550
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The DCERPC/NT dissector in Wireshark 0.10.10 through 1.0.9 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a file that records a malformed packet trace. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3550
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.2.3-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.2.3-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.2.3-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:48.549020283Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 419048,
"published_at": "2009-10-30T20:30:00.28+00:00"
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