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| From: | Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o> |
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| Subject: | [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200604-17 ] Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors |
| Date: | Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:39:42 |
| Message-Id: | 200604270717.01443.jaervosz@gentoo.org |
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| 2 | Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-17 |
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| 4 | http://security.gentoo.org/ |
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| 7 | Severity: High |
| 8 | Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors |
| 9 | Date: April 27, 2006 |
| 10 | Bugs: #130505 |
| 11 | ID: 200604-17 |
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| 14 | |
| 15 | Synopsis |
| 16 | ======== |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially |
| 19 | resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Background |
| 22 | ========== |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Affected packages |
| 27 | ================= |
| 28 | |
| 29 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 30 | Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
| 31 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 32 | 1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.99.0 >= 0.99.0 |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Description |
| 35 | =========== |
| 36 | |
| 37 | Coverity discovered numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal |
| 38 | prior to 0.99.0, including: |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * buffer overflows in the ALCAP (CVE-2006-1934), COPS (CVE-2006-1935) |
| 41 | and telnet (CVE-2006-1936) dissectors. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | * buffer overflows in the NetXray/Windows Sniffer and Network |
| 44 | Instruments file code (CVE-2006-1934). |
| 45 | |
| 46 | For further details please consult the references below. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | Impact |
| 49 | ====== |
| 50 | |
| 51 | An attacker might be able to exploit these vulnerabilities to crash |
| 52 | Ethereal or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user |
| 53 | running Ethereal, which could be the root user. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Workaround |
| 56 | ========== |
| 57 | |
| 58 | There is no known workaround at this time. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | Resolution |
| 61 | ========== |
| 62 | |
| 63 | All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| 64 | |
| 65 | # emerge --sync |
| 66 | # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.99.0" |
| 67 | |
| 68 | References |
| 69 | ========== |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [ 1 ] CVE-2006-1932 |
| 72 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1932 |
| 73 | [ 2 ] CVE-2006-1933 |
| 74 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1933 |
| 75 | [ 3 ] CVE-2006-1934 |
| 76 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1934 |
| 77 | [ 4 ] CVE-2006-1935 |
| 78 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1935 |
| 79 | [ 5 ] CVE-2006-1936 |
| 80 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1936 |
| 81 | [ 6 ] CVE-2006-1937 |
| 82 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1937 |
| 83 | [ 7 ] CVE-2006-1938 |
| 84 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1938 |
| 85 | [ 8 ] CVE-2006-1939 |
| 86 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1939 |
| 87 | [ 9 ] CVE-2006-1940 |
| 88 | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1940 |
| 89 | [ 10 ] Ethereal enpa-sa-00023 |
| 90 | http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00023.html |
| 91 | |
| 92 | Availability |
| 93 | ============ |
| 94 | |
| 95 | This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
| 96 | the Gentoo Security Website: |
| 97 | |
| 98 | http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200604-17.xml |
| 99 | |
| 100 | Concerns? |
| 101 | ========= |
| 102 | |
| 103 | Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
| 104 | confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
| 105 | importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
| 106 | security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
| 107 | http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | License |
| 110 | ======= |
| 111 | |
| 112 | Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
| 113 | belongs to its owner(s). |
| 114 | |
| 115 | The contents of this document are licensed under the |
| 116 | Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
| 117 | |
| 118 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 |