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Debian DSA-613-1 : ethereal - infinite loop

medium Nessus Plugin ID 16013

Synopsis

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

Description

Brian Caswell discovered that an improperly formatted SMB packet could make ethereal hang and eat CPU endlessly.

Solution

Upgrade the ethereal packages.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody9.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-613

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 16013

File Name: debian_DSA-613.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2004

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

Temporal Score: 3.7

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/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/15/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1142

BID: 11943

DSA: 613