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[ GLSA 200510-25 ] Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors
From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz () gentoo org>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:57:54 +0200
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-25 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: High Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors Date: October 30, 2005 Bugs: #109348 ID: 200510-25 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination. Background ========== Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.10.13-r1 >= 0.10.13-r1 Description =========== There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.13, including: * The SLIM3 and AgentX dissectors could overflow a buffer (CVE-2005-3243). * iDEFENSE discovered a buffer overflow in the SRVLOC dissector (CVE-2005-3184). * Multiple potential crashes in many dissectors have been fixed, see References for further details. Furthermore an infinite loop was discovered in the IRC protocol dissector of the 0.10.13 release (CVE-2005-3313). Impact ====== An attacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash Ethereal or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Ethereal, which could be the root user. Workaround ========== There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution ========== All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.13-r1" References ========== [ 1 ] CVE-2005-3184 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3184 [ 2 ] CVE-2005-3241 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3241 [ 3 ] CVE-2005-3242 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3242 [ 4 ] CVE-2005-3243 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3243 [ 5 ] CVE-2005-3244 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3244 [ 6 ] CVE-2005-3245 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3245 [ 7 ] CVE-2005-3246 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3246 [ 8 ] CVE-2005-3247 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3247 [ 9 ] CVE-2005-3248 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3248 [ 10 ] CVE-2005-3249 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3249 [ 11 ] CVE-2005-3313 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3313 [ 12 ] Ethereal enpa-sa-00021 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200510-25.xml Concerns? ========= Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security () gentoo org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org. License ======= Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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