FreeBSD : multiple vulnerabilities in ethereal (cdf18ed9-7f4a-11d8-9645-0020ed76ef5a)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38151

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Stefan Esser of e-matters Security discovered a baker's dozen of buffer overflows in Ethereal's decoders, including :

- NetFlow

- IGAP

- EIGRP

- PGM

- IRDA

- BGP

- ISUP

- TCAP

- UCP

In addition, a vulnerability in the RADIUS decoder was found by Jonathan Heusser.

Finally, there is one uncredited vulnerability described by the Ethereal team as :

A zero-length Presentation protocol selector could make Ethereal crash.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://ethereal.archive.sunet.se/appnotes/enpa-sa-00013.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?f89b32e9

http://www.nessus.org/u?68fd1664

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38151

File Name: freebsd_pkg_cdf18ed97f4a11d896450020ed76ef5a.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ethereal, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:tethereal, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0176, CVE-2004-0365, CVE-2004-0367

BID: 9952