Detections
Analytics
Wireshark / Ethereal 0.99.6 to 1.0.5 Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
low Nessus Plugin ID 35629
Synopsis
The remote host has an application that is susceptible to multiple denial of service attacks.Description
The installed version of Wireshark or Ethereal is affected by multiple denial of service issues :- Wireshark could crash while reading a malformed NetScreen snoop file. (Bug 3151)
- Wireshark could crash while reading a Tektronix K12 text capture file. (Bug 1937)
Solution
Upgrade to Wireshark 1.0.6 or later.See Also
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1937
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3151
Plugin Details
Severity: Low
ID: 35629
File Name: wireshark_1_0_6.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: Local
Agent: windows
Family: Windows
Published: 2/10/2009
Updated: 3/30/2026
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3
Percentile: 23.18
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 2.6
Temporal Score: 1.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark
Required KB Items: installed_sw/Wireshark, SMB/Registry/Enumerated
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0599, CVE-2009-0600
BID: 33690