National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2559
Original release date:07/21/2009
Last revised:07/21/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/12/2009)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1970
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 35748
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35884
Type: Advisory