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CVE-2009-2562

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2562 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability in the AFS dissector within Wireshark versions 0.9.2 through 1.2.0, allowing remote attackers to crash the application. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it indicates a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and 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, suggesting it is not a widely targeted or discussed vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0293 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-0:1.0.11-EL3.6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.11-1.el4_8.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.11-1.el5_5.5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-2562Moderate

Wireshark: Integer overflow in the AFS dissector

Jul 20, 2009

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/35884
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37477
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11643
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5625
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1942
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/09/17/15
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/09/18/2
securityfocus.com / bid/35748
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1970
Vendor Advisory
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.0.9.html
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html
PatchVendor Advisory
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2009-05.html