- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: High Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors Date: April 27, 2006 Bugs: #130505 ID: 200604-17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. Background ========== Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.99.0 >= 0.99.0 Description =========== Coverity discovered numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.99.0, including: * buffer overflows in the ALCAP (CVE-2006-1934), COPS (CVE-2006-1935) and telnet (CVE-2006-1936) dissectors. * buffer overflows in the NetXray/Windows Sniffer and Network Instruments file code (CVE-2006-1934). For further details please consult the references below. Impact ====== An attacker might be able to exploit these vulnerabilities to crash Ethereal or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Ethereal, which could be the root user. Workaround ========== There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution ========== All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.99.0" References ========== [ 1 ] CVE-2006-1932 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1932 [ 2 ] CVE-2006-1933 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1933 [ 3 ] CVE-2006-1934 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1934 [ 4 ] CVE-2006-1935 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1935 [ 5 ] CVE-2006-1936 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1936 [ 6 ] CVE-2006-1937 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1937 [ 7 ] CVE-2006-1938 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1938 [ 8 ] CVE-2006-1939 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1939 [ 9 ] CVE-2006-1940 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1940 [ 10 ] Ethereal enpa-sa-00023 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00023.html Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200604-17.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@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org. License ======= Copyright 2006 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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