<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200505-03"> <title>Ethereal: Numerous vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">Ethereal</product> <announced>2005-05-06</announced> <revised count="01">2005-05-06</revised> <bug>90539</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-analyzer/ethereal" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.10.11</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.10.11</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. </p> </background> <description> <p> There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.11, including: </p> <ul> <li>The ANSI A and DHCP dissectors are vulnerable to format string vulnerabilities.</li> <li>The DISTCC, FCELS, SIP, ISIS, CMIP, CMP, CMS, CRMF, ESS, OCSP, PKIX1Explitit, PKIX Qualified, X.509, Q.931, MEGACO, NCP, ISUP, TCAP and Presentation dissectors are vulnerable to buffer overflows.</li> <li>The KINK, WSP, SMB Mailslot, H.245, MGCP, Q.931, RPC, GSM and SMB NETLOGON dissectors are vulnerable to pointer handling errors.</li> <li>The LMP, KINK, MGCP, RSVP, SRVLOC, EIGRP, MEGACO, DLSw, NCP and L2TP dissectors are vulnerable to looping problems.</li> <li>The Telnet and DHCP dissectors could abort.</li> <li>The TZSP, Bittorrent, SMB, MGCP and ISUP dissectors could cause a segmentation fault.</li> <li>The WSP, 802.3 Slow protocols, BER, SMB Mailslot, SMB, NDPS, IAX2, RADIUS, SMB PIPE, MRDISC and TCAP dissectors could throw assertions.</li> <li>The DICOM, NDPS and ICEP dissectors are vulnerable to memory handling errors.</li> <li>The GSM MAP, AIM, Fibre Channel,SRVLOC, NDPS, LDAP and NTLMSSP dissectors could terminate abnormallly.</li> </ul> </description> <impact type="high"> <p> An attacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash Ethereal and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Ethereal, which could be the root user. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.11"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00019.html">Ethereal enpa-sa-00019</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1456">CAN-2005-1456</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1457">CAN-2005-1457</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1458">CAN-2005-1458</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1459">CAN-2005-1459</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1460">CAN-2005-1460</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1461">CAN-2005-1461</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1462">CAN-2005-1462</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1463">CAN-2005-1463</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1464">CAN-2005-1464</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1465">CAN-2005-1465</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1466">CAN-2005-1466</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1467">CAN-2005-1467</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1468">CAN-2005-1468</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1469">CAN-2005-1469</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1470">CAN-2005-1470</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-05-05T19:56:33Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-05-06T17:24:39Z"> jaervosz </metadata> </glsa>