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[ GLSA 200604-17 ] Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors
From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz () gentoo org>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:16:51 +0200
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: High Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors Date: April 27, 2006 Bugs: #130505 ID: 200604-17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. Background ========== Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.99.0 >= 0.99.0 Description =========== Coverity discovered numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.99.0, including: * buffer overflows in the ALCAP (CVE-2006-1934), COPS (CVE-2006-1935) and telnet (CVE-2006-1936) dissectors. * buffer overflows in the NetXray/Windows Sniffer and Network Instruments file code (CVE-2006-1934). For further details please consult the references below. Impact ====== An attacker might be able to exploit 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-0.99.0" References ========== [ 1 ] CVE-2006-1932 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1932 [ 2 ] CVE-2006-1933 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1933 [ 3 ] CVE-2006-1934 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1934 [ 4 ] CVE-2006-1935 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1935 [ 5 ] CVE-2006-1936 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1936 [ 6 ] CVE-2006-1937 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1937 [ 7 ] CVE-2006-1938 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1938 [ 8 ] CVE-2006-1939 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1939 [ 9 ] CVE-2006-1940 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1940 [ 10 ] Ethereal enpa-sa-00023 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00023.html Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200604-17.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 2006 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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