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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-03 |
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Severity: High |
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Title: Ethereal: Numerous vulnerabilities |
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Date: May 06, 2005 |
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Bugs: #90539 |
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ID: 200505-03 |
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Synopsis |
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Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities potentially |
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resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination. |
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Background |
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Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.10.11 >= 0.10.11 |
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Description |
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There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to |
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0.10.11, including: |
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* The ANSI A and DHCP dissectors are vulnerable to format string |
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vulnerabilities. |
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* The DISTCC, FCELS, SIP, ISIS, CMIP, CMP, CMS, CRMF, ESS, OCSP, |
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PKIX1Explitit, PKIX Qualified, X.509, Q.931, MEGACO, NCP, ISUP, TCAP |
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and Presentation dissectors are vulnerable to buffer overflows. |
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* The KINK, WSP, SMB Mailslot, H.245, MGCP, Q.931, RPC, GSM and SMB |
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NETLOGON dissectors are vulnerable to pointer handling errors. |
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* The LMP, KINK, MGCP, RSVP, SRVLOC, EIGRP, MEGACO, DLSw, NCP and |
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L2TP dissectors are vulnerable to looping problems. |
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* The Telnet and DHCP dissectors could abort. |
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* The TZSP, Bittorrent, SMB, MGCP and ISUP dissectors could cause a |
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segmentation fault. |
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* The WSP, 802.3 Slow protocols, BER, SMB Mailslot, SMB, NDPS, IAX2, |
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RADIUS, SMB PIPE, MRDISC and TCAP dissectors could throw assertions. |
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* The DICOM, NDPS and ICEP dissectors are vulnerable to memory |
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handling errors. |
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* The GSM MAP, AIM, Fibre Channel,SRVLOC, NDPS, LDAP and NTLMSSP |
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dissectors could terminate abnormallly. |
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Impact |
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An attacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash |
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Ethereal and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user |
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running Ethereal, which could be the root user. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.11" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] Ethereal enpa-sa-00019 |
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http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00019.html |
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[ 2 ] CAN-2005-1456 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1456 |
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[ 3 ] CAN-2005-1457 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1457 |
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[ 4 ] CAN-2005-1458 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1458 |
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[ 5 ] CAN-2005-1459 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1459 |
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[ 6 ] CAN-2005-1460 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1460 |
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[ 7 ] CAN-2005-1461 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1461 |
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[ 8 ] CAN-2005-1462 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1462 |
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[ 9 ] CAN-2005-1463 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1463 |
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[ 10 ] CAN-2005-1464 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1464 |
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[ 11 ] CAN-2005-1465 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1465 |
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[ 12 ] CAN-2005-1466 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1466 |
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[ 13 ] CAN-2005-1467 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1467 |
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[ 14 ] CAN-2005-1468 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1468 |
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[ 15 ] CAN-2005-1469 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1469 |
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[ 16 ] CAN-2005-1470 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1470 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200505-03.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 |