CVE-2009-2559: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.2.0 only

Published 2009-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.