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CVE-2009-3550
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…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 25 days later
· 25 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- 36846 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 37477 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-3061 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.0.10.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.3.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- wireshark-dcerpcnt-dos(54017) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 37409 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-07.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-08.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6005 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10103 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- DSA-1942 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 37175 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-3532 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2009-3550)Record last updated .