metadata/glsa/glsa-200505-03.xml

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<glsa id="200505-03">
  <title>Ethereal: Numerous 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>May 06, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 06, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>90539</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/ethereal" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.10.11</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.10.11</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 0.10.11, including:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>The ANSI A and DHCP dissectors are
    vulnerable to format string vulnerabilities.</li>
    <li>The DISTCC,
    FCELS, SIP, ISIS, CMIP, CMP, CMS, CRMF, ESS, OCSP, PKIX1Explitit, PKIX
    Qualified, X.509, Q.931, MEGACO, NCP, ISUP, TCAP and Presentation
    dissectors are vulnerable to buffer overflows.</li>
    <li>The KINK, WSP,
    SMB Mailslot, H.245, MGCP, Q.931, RPC, GSM and SMB NETLOGON dissectors
    are vulnerable to pointer handling errors.</li>
    <li>The LMP, KINK,
    MGCP, RSVP, SRVLOC, EIGRP, MEGACO, DLSw, NCP and L2TP dissectors are
    vulnerable to looping problems.</li>
    <li>The Telnet and DHCP dissectors
    could abort.</li>
    <li>The TZSP, Bittorrent, SMB, MGCP and ISUP
    dissectors could cause a segmentation fault.</li>
    <li>The WSP, 802.3
    Slow protocols, BER, SMB Mailslot, SMB, NDPS, IAX2, RADIUS, SMB PIPE,
    MRDISC and TCAP dissectors could throw assertions.</li>
    <li>The DICOM,
    NDPS and ICEP dissectors are vulnerable to memory handling errors.</li>
    <li>The GSM MAP, AIM, Fibre Channel,SRVLOC, NDPS, LDAP and NTLMSSP
    dissectors could terminate abnormallly.</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>
    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-0.10.11&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00019.html">Ethereal enpa-sa-00019</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1456">CAN-2005-1456</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1457">CAN-2005-1457</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1458">CAN-2005-1458</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1459">CAN-2005-1459</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1460">CAN-2005-1460</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1461">CAN-2005-1461</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1462">CAN-2005-1462</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1463">CAN-2005-1463</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1464">CAN-2005-1464</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1465">CAN-2005-1465</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1466">CAN-2005-1466</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1467">CAN-2005-1467</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1468">CAN-2005-1468</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1469">CAN-2005-1469</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1470">CAN-2005-1470</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 05 May 2005 19:56:33 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 06 May 2005 17:24:39 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>