CVE-2009-0601: Wireshark

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in Wireshark 0.99.8 through 1.0.5 on non-Windows platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in the HOME environment variable.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.99.8 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …

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