DSA-528-1 ethereal -- denial of service

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-528-1 ethereal -- denial of service

Date Reported:

17 Jul 2004

Affected Packages:

ethereal

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0635.

More information:

Several denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities are described in the ethereal advisory "enpa-sa-00015". Of these, only one (CAN-2004-0635) affects the version of ethereal in Debian woody. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to crash ethereal with an invalid SNMP packet.

For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody8.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.5-1.

We recommend that you update your ethereal package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8.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_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_sparc.deb

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