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CVE-2009-3549

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-3549 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Paltalk dissector within Wireshark versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.2, specifically affecting SPARC and similar platforms. A remote attacker could exploit this by providing a malformed packet trace file, leading to an application crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0260 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-3549Low

Wireshark: Invalid pointer dereference in the Paltalk dissector

Oct 27, 2009

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/37175
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37409
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54016
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6391
securityfocus.com / bid/36846
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/3061
PatchVendor Advisory
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.3.html
Patch
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2009-07.html
Vendor Advisory