metadata/glsa/glsa-200510-25.xml

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<glsa id="200510-25">
  <title>Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors</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>October 30, 2005</announced>
  <revised>October 30, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>109348</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/ethereal" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.10.13-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.10.13-r1</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 0.10.13, including:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>The SLIM3 and AgentX dissectors
    could overflow a buffer (CVE-2005-3243).</li>
    <li>iDEFENSE discovered a
    buffer overflow in the SRVLOC dissector (CVE-2005-3184).</li>
    <li>Multiple potential crashes in many dissectors have been fixed, see
    References for further details.</li>
    </ul>
    <p>
    Furthermore an infinite
    loop was discovered in the IRC protocol dissector of the 0.10.13
    release (CVE-2005-3313).
    </p>
  </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-0.10.13-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3184">CVE-2005-3184</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3241">CVE-2005-3241</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3242">CVE-2005-3242</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3243">CVE-2005-3243</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3244">CVE-2005-3244</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3245">CVE-2005-3245</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3246">CVE-2005-3246</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3247">CVE-2005-3247</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3248">CVE-2005-3248</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3249">CVE-2005-3249</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3313">CVE-2005-3313</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html">Ethereal enpa-sa-00021</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:29:11 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:10:32 +0000">
    adir
  </metadata>
</glsa>