There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.12, including:
* The SMB dissector could overflow a buffer or exhaust memory (CAN-2005-2365).
* iDEFENSE discovered that several dissectors are vulnerable to format string overflows (CAN-2005-2367).
* Additionally multiple potential crashes in many dissectors have been fixed, see References for further details.
Impact ======
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.
Workaround ==========
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution ==========
All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License =======
Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.