gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200604-17.xml

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<glsa id="200604-17">
  <title>Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors</title>
  <synopsis>
    Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially resulting
    in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Ethereal</product>
  <announced>April 27, 2006</announced>
  <revised>April 27, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>130505</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/ethereal" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.99.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.99.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Coverity discovered numerous vulnerabilities in versions of
    Ethereal prior to 0.99.0, including:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>
    buffer overflows in the ALCAP (CVE-2006-1934), COPS (CVE-2006-1935)
    and telnet (CVE-2006-1936) dissectors.</li>
    <li>buffer overflows
    in the NetXray/Windows Sniffer and Network Instruments file code
    (CVE-2006-1934).</li>
    </ul>
    <p>
    For further details please consult the
    references below.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker might be able to exploit these vulnerabilities to crash
    Ethereal or 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 &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.99.0&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1932">CVE-2006-1932</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1933">CVE-2006-1933</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1934">CVE-2006-1934</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1935">CVE-2006-1935</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1936">CVE-2006-1936</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1937">CVE-2006-1937</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1938">CVE-2006-1938</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1939">CVE-2006-1939</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1940">CVE-2006-1940</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00023.html">Ethereal enpa-sa-00023</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:35:49 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:10:07 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>