Wireshark / Ethereal 0.9.2 to 1.0.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 41029

Synopsis

The remote host has an application that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The installed version of Wireshark or Ethereal is affected by multiple issues :

- The AFS dissector could crash. (Bug 3564)

- The infiniband dissector could crash on some platforms.
(CVE-2009-2563)

- The OpcUa dissector could use excessive CPU and memory.
(Bug 3986)

These vulnerabilities could result in a denial of service. A remote attacker could exploit these issues by tricking a user into opening a maliciously crafted capture file. Additionally, if Wireshark is running in promiscuous mode, one of these issues could be exploited remotely (from the same network segment).

Solution

Upgrade to Wireshark 1.0.9 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 41029

File Name: wireshark_1_0_9.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: Local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 9/21/2009

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Wireshark

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2562, CVE-2009-2563

BID: 35748

Detections

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