FreeBSD VuXML: Documenting security issues in FreeBSD and the FreeBSD Ports Collection

CVE-2009-0601

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2009-03-22	wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

The following information is adapted from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project. CVE and the CVE logo are trademarks of The MITRE Corporation. CVE content is Copyright 2005, The MITRE Corporation.

CVE-2009-0601 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2009-0601
Phase	Assigned(20090216)

Description

Format string vulnerability in Wireshark 0.99.8 through 1.0.5 on non-Windows platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in the HOME environment variable.

References

Source	Reference
BUGTRAQ	20090312 rPSA-2009-0040-1 tshark wireshark
CONFIRM	http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html
CONFIRM	https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3150
CONFIRM	http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0040
CONFIRM	https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2984
SUSE	SUSE-SR:2009:005
BID	33690
SECUNIA	34264
VUPEN	ADV-2009-0370
SECTRACK	1021697