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GLSA-200510-25 : Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors

critical Nessus Plugin ID 20118

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200510-25 (Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors)

 There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.13, including:
 The SLIM3 and AgentX dissectors could overflow a buffer (CVE-2005-3243).
 iDEFENSE discovered a buffer overflow in the SRVLOC dissector (CVE-2005-3184).
 Multiple potential crashes in many dissectors have been fixed, see References for further details.
 Furthermore an infinite loop was discovered in the IRC protocol dissector of the 0.10.13 release (CVE-2005-3313).
 Impact :

 An attacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash Ethereal or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Ethereal, which could be the root user.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.13-r1'

See Also

http://ethereal.archive.sunet.se/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200510-25

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 20118

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200510-25.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Published: 11/2/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ethereal, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3184, CVE-2005-3241, CVE-2005-3242, CVE-2005-3243, CVE-2005-3244, CVE-2005-3245, CVE-2005-3246, CVE-2005-3247, CVE-2005-3248, CVE-2005-3249, CVE-2005-3313

GLSA: 200510-25