Package : ethereal Vulnerability : denial of service Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0635
Several denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilites are described in the ethereal advisory "enpa-sa-00015". Of these, only one (CAN-2004-0635) affects the version of ethereal in Debian woody. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to crash ethereal with an invalid SNMP packet.
For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody8.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.5-1.
We recommend that you update your ethereal package.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------