DSA-162-1 ethereal -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-162-1 ethereal -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

06 Sep 2002

Affected Packages:

ethereal

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 5573.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0834.

More information:

Ethereal developers discovered a buffer overflow in the ISIS protocol dissector. It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or hang by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire, or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. It may be possible to make Ethereal run arbitrary code by exploiting the buffer and pointer problems.

This problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody2 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 0.8.0-4potato.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 0.9.6-1 for the unstable distribution (sid).

We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_i386.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_m68k.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_powerpc.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_ia64.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.