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CVE-2009-1269

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-1269 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 0.99.6 through 1.0.6. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the application by providing a specially crafted Tektronix .rf5 file. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, though it only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting it is not widely targeted.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.8-EL3.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.8-1.el4_8.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.8-1.el5_3.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-1269Low

Wireshark Tektronix .rf5 file crash

Apr 8, 2009

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
secunia.com / advisories/34778
secunia.com / advisories/34970
secunia.com / advisories/35133
secunia.com / advisories/35224
secunia.com / advisories/35416
secunia.com / advisories/35464
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/49816
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10642
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5748
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00675.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01167.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01213.html
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2009-0062
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1785
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-1100.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/502745/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/34457
securitytracker.com / id
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2009-02.html
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