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Mandriva: Updated ethereal packages fix vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake Three vulnerabilities were discovered in Ethereal 0.10.13: The IRC and GTP dissectors could go into an infinite loop. A buffer overflow was discovered by iDefense in the OSPF dissector. Ethereal has been upgraded to 0.10.14 which does not suffer from these problems.
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDKSA-2006:002
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Package : ethereal
 Date    : January 3, 2006
 Affected: 2006.0
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Problem Description:
 
 Three vulnerabilities were discovered in Ethereal 0.10.13:
 
 The IRC and GTP dissectors could go into an infinite loop.
 
 A buffer overflow was discovered by iDefense in the OSPF dissector.
 
 Ethereal has been upgraded to 0.10.14 which does not suffer from these
 problems.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:
 
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-3651
 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00022.html
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Updated Packages:
 
 Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
 a055efb80c48c277b052ad733a7f8dc9  2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 acf8e4fc1f1c2d75002c8583474d4f01  2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 499b8112338d62b7b2db6ad3f0869109  2006.0/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 528f458848c122e2fd42fb3116643fea  2006.0/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 44c4e7789d3e6b33ec5c4cf077557fc1  2006.0/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
 1a99f01c91cbf6dde19f41d1e3dd27eb  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 f628d006ff03fbd21deb47b0387a3388  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 56cf815f56a5baa86820ed1d9e844066  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 1528803d727413623fd5b3f40414f7e1  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 44c4e7789d3e6b33ec5c4cf077557fc1  x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  
 
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