Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors
1.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Version Information
| Advisory Reference |
GLSA 200604-17 / Ethereal |
| Release Date |
April 27, 2006 |
| Latest Revision |
April 27, 2006: 01 |
| Impact |
high |
| Exploitable |
remote |
| Package |
Vulnerable versions |
Unaffected versions |
Architecture(s) |
| net-analyzer/ethereal |
<
0.99.0 |
>=
0.99.0 |
All supported architectures
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Related bugreports:
#130505
Synopsis
Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially resulting
in the execution of arbitrary code.
2.
Impact Information
Background
Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer.
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.
3.
Resolution Information
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.99.0"
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4.
References
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