National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-4378
Original release date:12/21/2009
Last revised:01/14/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The IPMI dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.4 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted packet, related to "formatting a date/time using strftime."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-3596
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-13592
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4319
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-09.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1023374
External Source: BID
Name: 37407
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37842
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7576
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 61179
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7576
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5