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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200503-16
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  Severity: High
     Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: March 12, 2005
      Bugs: #84547
        ID: 200503-16

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal, which may allow an attacker
to run arbitrary code or crash the program.

Background
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Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer.

Affected packages
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     Package                /  Vulnerable  /                Unaffected
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  1  net-analyzer/ethereal      < 0.10.10                   >= 0.10.10

Description
===========

There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than
0.10.10, including:

* The Etheric and 3GPP2 A11 dissectors are vulnerable to buffer
  overflows (CAN-2005-0704 and CAN-2005-0699).

* The GPRS-LLC could crash when the "ignore cipher bit" option is
  enabled (CAN-2005-0705).

* Various vulnerabilities in the IAPP, JXTA, and sFlow dissectors.

Impact
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An attacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash
Ethereal and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user
running Ethereal, which could be the root user.

Workaround
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For a temporary workaround you can disable all affected protocol
dissectors. However, it is strongly recommended that you upgrade to the
latest stable version.

Resolution
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All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.10"

References
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  [ 1 ] CAN-2005-0699
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0699
  [ 2 ] CAN-2005-0704
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0704
  [ 3 ] CAN-2005-0705
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0705
  [ 4 ] Ethereal enpa-sa-00018
        http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00018.html

Availability
============

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-16.xml

Concerns?
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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
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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.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0