Debian DSA-1201-1 : ethereal - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22931

Synopsis

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

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Ethereal network scanner. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2005-4574 It was discovered that the MIME multipart dissector is vulnerable to denial of service caused by an off-by-one overflow.

- CVE-2006-4805 It was discovered that the XOT dissector is vulnerable to denial of service caused by memory corruption.

Solution

Upgrade the ethereal packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.10-2sarge9. Due to technical problems with the security buildd infrastructure this update lacks builds for the hppa and sparc architecture. They will be released as soon as the problems are resolved.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22931

File Name: debian_DSA-1201.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/1/2006

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:3.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4574, CVE-2006-4805

DSA: 1201

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