CVE-2009-4377

N/A Unknown

Published: December 21, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

The (1) SMB and (2) SMB2 dissectors in Wireshark 0.9.0 through 1.2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted packet that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by fuzz-2009-12-07-11141.pcap.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://osvdb.org/61178

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/37842

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/37916

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1983

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:031

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37407

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023374

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3596

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-09.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4301

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9564

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01248.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://osvdb.org/61178