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CVE-2009-3242

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-3242 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability in the GSM A RR dissector within Wireshark versions 1.2.0 and 1.2.1. This flaw, stemming from an uninitialized dissector handle in packet.c, can lead to an application crash via unknown remote vectors. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a public exploit (EDB-33224) exists, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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
7.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-33224 · Sep 15, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0778 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-3242Low

Wireshark: DoS (crash) in GSM A RR dissector

Aug 13, 2009

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/36754
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37409
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5423
securityfocus.com / bid/36408
Exploit
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.2.html
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.html
Vendor Advisory