CVE-2009-4378: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only

Published 2009-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.