CVE-2009-3242: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in packet.c in the GSM A RR dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unknown vectors related to "an uninitialized dissector handle," which triggers an assertion failure.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only

Published 2009-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.