CVE-2009-0601

Public Date:
2009-02-06
Bugzilla:
485894: CVE-2009-0601 wireshark: denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in the HOME environment variable.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2009-0601 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. For further details, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-0601#c3

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