Fedora: 2,1: ethereal Denial of service vulnerabilities
Summary
Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.
This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.
Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.
This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.
Update Information:
Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors:
* The iSNS dissector could make Ethereal abort in some cases. (0.10.3 - 0.10.4) CAN-2004-0633
* SMB SID snooping could crash if there was no policy name for a handle. (0.9.15 - 0.10.4) CAN-2004-0634
* The SNMP dissector could crash due to a malformed or missing community string. (0.8.15 - 0.10.4) CAN-2004-0635
Impact:
It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or run arbitrary code by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
Resolution:
Upgrade to 0.10.5.
If you are running a version prior to 0.10.5 and you cannot upgrade, you can disable all of the protocol dissectors listed above by selecting Analyze->Enabled Protocols... and deselecting them from the list. For SMB, you can alternatively disable SID snooping in the SMB protocol preferences. However, it is strongly recommended that you up...
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References
CORE 2: Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-220 2004-07-14 Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : ethereal Version : 0.10.5 Release : 0.2.1 Summary : Network traffic analyzer Description : Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package.
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