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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200507-27
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  Severity: High
     Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: July 28, 2005
      Bugs: #100316
        ID: 200507-27

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Synopsis
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Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities potentially
resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination.

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      < 0.10.12                   >= 0.10.12

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

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:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12"

References
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  [ 1 ] Ethereal enpa-sa-00020
        http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00020.html
  [ 2 ] CAN-2005-2360
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2360
  [ 3 ] CAN-2005-2361
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2361
  [ 4 ] CAN-2005-2362
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2362
  [ 5 ] CAN-2005-2363
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2363
  [ 6 ] CAN-2005-2364
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2364
  [ 7 ] CAN-2005-2365
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2365
  [ 8 ] CAN-2005-2366
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2366
  [ 9 ] CAN-2005-2367
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2367

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

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

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-27.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