CVE-2009-2559 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Wireshark

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer6 documents6 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WiresharkDebian Wireshark
Timeline
PublishedJul 21
Latest updateMay 2

Description

Buffer overflow in the IPMI dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors related to an array index error. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wireshark< wireshark 1.2.1-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 1.2.1-1+3

Patches

Patch: www.vupen.com ↗Patch: www.wireshark.org ↗Patch: www.vupen.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-r3m9-p95m-422h: Buffer overflow in the IPMI dissector in Wireshark 1↗2022-05-02
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OSV
CVE-2009-2559: Buffer overflow in the IPMI dissector in Wireshark 1↗2009-07-21
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
Wireshark-1.2.0: DoS (crash) due array index error in IPMI dissector↗2009-07-20
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Debian
CVE-2009-2559: wireshark - Buffer overflow in the IPMI dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 allows remote attackers...↗2009
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2009-2559 Wireshark-1.2.0: DoS (crash) due array index error in IPMI dissector↗2009-07-21
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