Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors

Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination. Ethereal October 30, 2005 October 30, 2005: 01 109348 remote 0.10.13-r1 0.10.13-r1

Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer.

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).

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.13-r1"

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 Ethereal enpa-sa-00021 jaervosz adir