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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-10 |
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PACKAGE : ethereal |
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SUMMARY : arbitrary code execution |
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DATE : 2003-03-09 20:12 UTC |
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EXPLOIT : remote |
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VERSIONS AFFECTED : <0.9.10 |
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FIXED VERSION : >=0.9.10 |
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CVE : |
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- From advisory: |
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"The SOCKS dissector in Ethereal 0.9.9 is susceptible to a format |
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string overflow. This vulnerability has been present in Ethereal since |
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the SOCKS dissector was introduced in version 0.8.7. It was discovered |
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by Georgi Guninski. Additionally, the NTLMSSP code is susceptible to a |
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heap overflow. All users of Ethereal 0.9.9 and below are encouraged |
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to upgrade. " |
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Read the full advisory at: |
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http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html |
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SOLUTION |
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It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running |
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net-analyzer/ethereal upgrade to ethereal-0.9.10 as follows: |
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emerge sync |
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emerge ethereal |
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emerge clean |
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aliz@g.o - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz |
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