[Full-disclosure] [ GLSA 200510-25 ] Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors

From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (jaervosz_at_gentoo.org)
Date: 10/30/05

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:57:54 +0200

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-25
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  Severity: High
     Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors
      Date: October 30, 2005
      Bugs: #109348
        ID: 200510-25

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Synopsis
========

Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially
resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination.

Background
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Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer.

Affected packages
=================

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     Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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  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
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.13-r1"

References
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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
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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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