PT-2009-6500 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Published 2009-12-21 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2009-4378

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted packet, related to formatting a date/time using strftime. This occurs when the IPMI dissector in Wireshark is running on Windows.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.4, consider disabling the IPMI dissector as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to untrusted networks to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-4378

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4378 · Security Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3596 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-09.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37842 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01248.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/37407 · Note
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4319 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/61179 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1023374 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7576 · Note