DSA-653-1 ethereal -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-653-1 ethereal -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

21 Jan 2005

Affected Packages:

ethereal

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0084.

More information:

A buffer overflow has been detected in the X11 dissector of ethereal, a commonly used network traffic analyser. A remote attacker may be able to overflow a buffer using a specially crafted IP packet. More problems have been discovered which don't apply to the version in woody but are fixed in sid as well.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody11.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11.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_0.9.4-1woody11_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody11_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody11_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody11_sparc.deb

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