DSA-613-1 ethereal -- infinite loop

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-613-1 ethereal -- infinite loop

Date Reported:

21 Dec 2004

Affected Packages:

ethereal

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 11943.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1142.

More information:

Brian Caswell discovered that an improperly formatted SMB packet could make ethereal hang and eat CPU endlessly.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody9.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9.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_0.9.4-1woody9_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_sparc.deb

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