CVE-2009-3549: Wireshark

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

packet-paltalk.c in the Paltalk dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.2, on SPARC and certain other platforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a file that records a malformed packet trace.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.2 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only

Published 2009-10-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.