Package : ethereal Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0084
A buffer overflow has been detected in the X11 dissector of ethereal, a commonly used network traffic analyser. A remote attacker may be able to overflow a buffer using a specially crafted IP packet. More problems have been discovered which don't apply to the version in woody but are fixed in sid as well.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody11.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.9-1.
We recommend that you upgrade 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 --------------------------------