National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0601

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (02/17/2009)

Red Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. For further details, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-0601#c3

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External Source: BID

Name: 33690

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33690

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0370

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2009/0370

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2984

Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2984

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3150

Hyperlink:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3150

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021697

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021697

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090312 rPSA-2009-0040-1 tshark wireshark

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/501763/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0040

Hyperlink:http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0040

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34264

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34264

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:005

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html