metadata/glsa/glsa-200507-27.xml

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<glsa id="200507-27">
  <title>Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities potentially resulting in
    the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Ethereal</product>
  <announced>July 28, 2005</announced>
  <revised>July 28, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>100316</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/ethereal" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.10.12</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.10.12</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior
    to 0.10.12, including:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>The SMB dissector could overflow a
    buffer or exhaust memory (CAN-2005-2365).</li>
    <li>iDEFENSE discovered
    that several dissectors are vulnerable to format string overflows
    (CAN-2005-2367).</li>
    <li>Additionally multiple potential crashes in
    many dissectors have been fixed, see References for further
    details.</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </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-0.10.12&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00020.html">Ethereal enpa-sa-00020</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2360">CAN-2005-2360</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2361">CAN-2005-2361</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2362">CAN-2005-2362</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2363">CAN-2005-2363</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2364">CAN-2005-2364</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2365">CAN-2005-2365</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2366">CAN-2005-2366</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2367">CAN-2005-2367</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:41:31 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:33:45 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>