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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-27
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Severity: High
Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: July 28, 2005
Bugs: #100316
ID: 200507-27
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Synopsis
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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 < 0.10.12 >= 0.10.12
Description
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There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to
0.10.12, including:
* The SMB dissector could overflow a buffer or exhaust memory
(CAN-2005-2365).
* iDEFENSE discovered that several dissectors are vulnerable to
format string overflows (CAN-2005-2367).
* Additionally multiple potential crashes in many dissectors have
been fixed, see References for further details.
Impact
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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-0.10.12"
References
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[ 1 ] Ethereal enpa-sa-00020
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00020.html
[ 2 ] CAN-2005-2360
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2360
[ 3 ] CAN-2005-2361
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2361
[ 4 ] CAN-2005-2362
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2362
[ 5 ] CAN-2005-2363
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2363
[ 6 ] CAN-2005-2364
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2364
[ 7 ] CAN-2005-2365
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2365
[ 8 ] CAN-2005-2366
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2366
[ 9 ] CAN-2005-2367
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2367
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-27.xml
Concerns?
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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@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
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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