gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200311-05.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200311-05">
<title>Ethereal: security problems in ethereal 0.9.15</title>
<synopsis>
Ethereal is vulnerable to heap and buffer overflows in the GTP, ISAKMP,
MEGACO, and SOCKS protocol dissectors.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">Ethereal</product>
<announced>2003-11-22</announced>
<revised count="01">2003-11-22</revised>
<bug>32691</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-analyzer/ethereal" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.9.16</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.9.16</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Ethereal is a popular network protocol analyzer.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Ethereal contains buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the GTP, ISAKMP, and
MEGACO protocol dissectors, and a heap overflow vulnerability in the SOCKS
protocol dissector, which could cause Ethereal to crash or to execute
arbitrary code.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker could craft a malformed packet which would cause Ethereal
to crash or run arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running
Ethereal.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time, other than to disable the GTP,
ISAKMP, MEGACO, and SOCKS protocol dissectors.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-analyzer/ethereal 0.9.x upgrade:
</p>
<code>
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv '&gt;=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.9.16'
# emerge '&gt;=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.9.16'
# emerge clean</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00011.html">Ethereal Security Advisory</uri>
</references>
</glsa>