CVE-2009-0601 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2009-0601 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 473828 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:005, published Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:33:34 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:37 2025