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…

Description

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."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4319 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 61179 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 37842 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2009-3596 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-13592 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 37407 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1023374 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7576 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-09.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2009-4378](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2009-4378.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2009-4378)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 07:01 UTC.