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."

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201006-05 (Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the Daintree SNA file parser,     the SMB, SMB2, IPMI, and DOCSIS dissectors. For further information     please consult the CVE entries referenced below.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service and possibly execute     arbitrary code via crafted packets or malformed packet trace files.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Various fixes were provided in wireshark 1.2.5 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.5.html for more details. Enhancements - introduced -devel package with autoconf support - enable Lua support Fedora Bug Fixes - the root warning dialog no longer shows up The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for details and a workaround.
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa- sec-2009-09.html - The Daintree SNA file parser could overflow a buffer. (Bug 4294) CVE-2009-4376 - The SMB and SMB2 dissectors could crash. (Bug 4301) CVE-2009-4377 - The IPMI dissector could crash on Windows. (Bug 4319) The following bugs have been fixed: - Wireshark does not graph rtp streams. (Bug 3801) - Wireshark showing extraneous data in a TCP stream. (Bug 3955) - Wrong decoding of gtp.target identification. (Bug 3974) - TTE dissector bug. (Bug 4247) - Upper case in Lua pref symbol causes Wireshark to crash. (Bug 4255) - OpenBSD 4.5 build fails at epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c. (Bug 4258) - Incorrect display of stream data using 'Follow tcp stream' option. (Bug 4288) - Custom RADIUS dictionary can cause a crash. (Bug 4316) Updated Protocol Support - DAP, eDonkey, GTP, IPMI, MIP, RADIUS, RANAP, SMB, SMB2, TCP, TTE, VNC, X.509sat Updated Capture File Support - Daintree SNA.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The installed version of Wireshark or Ethereal is potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

  - The Daintree SNA file parser can overflow a buffer.
    (Bug 4294)

  - The SMB and SMB2 dissectors can crash. (Bug 4301)

  - The IPMI dissector can crash on Windows. (Bug 4319)

These vulnerabilities can result in a denial of service, or possibly arbitrary code execution.  A remote attacker can exploit these issues by tricking a user into opening a maliciously crafted capture file. Additionally, if Wireshark is running in promiscuous mode, one of these issues can be exploited remotely (from the same network segment).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
46772	GLSA-201006-05 : Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	high
43592	Fedora 12 : wireshark-1.2.5-3.fc12 (2009-13592)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
43350	Wireshark / Ethereal 0.9.0 to 1.2.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	Local	high

Detections

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CVE-2009-4378

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Tenable Plugins

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