metadata/glsa/glsa-200503-16.xml

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<glsa id="200503-16">
  <title>Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal, which may allow an attacker to
    run arbitrary code or crash the program.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ethereal</product>
  <announced>March 12, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 03</revised>
  <bug>84547</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/ethereal" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.10.10</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.10.10</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than
    0.10.10, including:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>The Etheric, 3GPP2 A11 and IAPP dissectors are vulnerable to buffer
    overflows (CAN-2005-0704, CAN-2005-0699 and CAN-2005-0739).</li>
    <li>The GPRS-LLC could crash when the "ignore cipher bit" option is
    enabled (CAN-2005-0705).</li>
    <li>Various vulnerabilities in JXTA and sFlow dissectors.</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash
    Ethereal and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user
    running Ethereal, which could be the root user.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    For a temporary workaround you can disable all affected protocol
    dissectors. However, it is strongly recommended that you upgrade to the
    latest stable version.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.10&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0699">CAN-2005-0699</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0704">CAN-2005-0704</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0705">CAN-2005-0705</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0739">CAN-2005-0739</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0765">CVE-2005-0765</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0766">CVE-2005-0766</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00018.html">Ethereal enpa-sa-00018</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed,  9 Mar 2005 13:39:26 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:50:23 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
</glsa>