CVE-2009-0599: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in wiretap/netscreen.c in Wireshark 0.99.7 through 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed NetScreen snoop file.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.99.7 only; version 0.99.8 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; …

Published 2009-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.