Gentoo: ethereal Arbitrary code execution
The SOCKS dissector in Ethereal 0.9.9 is susceptible to a formatstring overflow
Summary
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>From advisory: "The SOCKS dissector in Ethereal 0.9.9 is susceptible to a format string overflow. This vulnerability has been present in Ethereal since the SOCKS dissector was introduced in version 0.8.7. It was discovered by Georgi Guninski. Additionally, the NTLMSSP code is susceptible to a heap overflow. All users of Ethereal 0.9.9 and below are encouraged to upgrade. "
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SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-analyzer/ethereal upgrade to ethereal-0.9.10 as follows:
emerge sync emerge ethereal emerge clean
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PACKAGE : ethereal
SUMMARY : arbitrary code execution
DATE : 2003-03-09 20:12 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <0.9.10 : fixed version>=0.9.10
CVE :
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