Package : ethereal Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3651 BugTraq ID : 15794 Debian Bug : 342911
A buffer overflow has been discovered in ethereal, a commonly used network traffic analyser that causes a denial of service and may potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody14.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.10-2sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages.
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 - --------------------------------