<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <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>2005-07-28</announced> <revised count="01">2005-07-28</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 ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00020.html">Ethereal enpa-sa-00020</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2360">CAN-2005-2360</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2361">CAN-2005-2361</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2362">CAN-2005-2362</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2363">CAN-2005-2363</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2364">CAN-2005-2364</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2365">CAN-2005-2365</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2366">CAN-2005-2366</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2367">CAN-2005-2367</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-07-26T19:41:31Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-07-28T05:33:45Z"> jaervosz </metadata> </glsa>