GLSA 200507-27: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	07/28/2005
Bugs:	#100316
ID:	200507-27

Synopsis

Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination.

Background

Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/ethereal	< 0.10.12	>= 0.10.12	All supported architectures

Description

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

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

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-0.10.12"

References

Availability

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?

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@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.