gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200607-09.xml

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<glsa id="200607-09">
  <title>Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal) is vulnerable to several security
    issues, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code by a remote
    attacker.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">wireshark ethereal</product>
  <announced>2006-07-25</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-07-25</revised>
  <bug>140856</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/wireshark" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.99.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.99.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="net-analyzer/ethereal" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">0.99.0-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, is a popular network protocol
    analyzer.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Wireshark dissectors have been found vulnerable to a large number of
    exploits, including off-by-one errors, buffer overflows, format string
    overflows and an infinite loop.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    Running an affected version of Wireshark or Ethereal could allow for a
    remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the user's computer by
    sending specially crafted packets.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/wireshark-0.99.2"</code>
    <p>
    All Ethereal users should migrate to Wireshark:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --unmerge net-analyzer/ethereal
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/wireshark-0.99.2"</code>
    <p>
    To keep the [saved] configuration from Ethereal and reuse it with
    Wireshark:
    </p>
    <code>
    # mv ~/.ethereal ~/.wireshark</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-01.html">Wireshark wnpa-sec-2006-01</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3627">CVE-2006-3627</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3628">CVE-2006-3628</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3629">CVE-2006-3629</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3630">CVE-2006-3630</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3631">CVE-2006-3631</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3632">CVE-2006-3632</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-07-19T16:53:04Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-07-19T18:04:14Z">
    dizzutch
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-07-22T20:10:22Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>