CentOS 3 / 4 : ethereal (CESA-2006:0156)

high Nessus Plugin ID 21883

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated Ethereal packages that fix various security vulnerabilities are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Ethereal is a program for monitoring network traffic.

Two denial of service bugs were found in Ethereal's IRC and GTP protocol dissectors. Ethereal could crash or stop responding if it reads a malformed IRC or GTP packet off the network. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the names CVE-2005-3313 and CVE-2005-4585 to these issues.

A buffer overflow bug was found in Ethereal's OSPF protocol dissector.
Ethereal could crash or execute arbitrary code if it reads a malformed OSPF packet off the network. (CVE-2005-3651)

Users of ethereal should upgrade to these updated packages containing version 0.10.14, which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Solution

Update the affected ethereal packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1cd7238c

http://www.nessus.org/u?92b2405c

http://www.nessus.org/u?65b5343a

http://www.nessus.org/u?be970ccf

http://www.nessus.org/u?2064676c

http://www.nessus.org/u?93e59d63

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 21883

File Name: centos_RHSA-2006-0156.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ethereal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ethereal-gnome, cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3313, CVE-2005-3651, CVE-2005-4585

BID: 15219, 15794, 16076

RHSA: 2006:0156