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Debian DSA-528-1 : ethereal - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15365

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities are described in the ethereal advisory 'enpa-sa-00015'. Of these, only one ( CAN-2004-0635) affects the version of ethereal in Debian woody. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to crash ethereal with an invalid SNMP packet.

Solution

For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody8.

We recommend that you update your ethereal package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-528

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15365

File Name: debian_DSA-528.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ethereal, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0635

DSA: 528