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[GLSA-200503-16] Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-16 (Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities) There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.10, including: The Etheric, 3GPP2 A11 and IAPP dissectors are vulnerable to buffer overflows (CVE-2005-0704, CVE-2005-0699 and CVE-2005-0739). The GPRS-LLC could crash when the "ignore cipher bit" option is enabled (CVE-2005-0705). Various vulnerabilities in JXTA and sFlow dissectors. Impact A possible hacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash Ethereal and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Ethereal, which could be the root user. Workaround For a temporary workaround you can disable all affected protocol dissectors. However, it is strongly recommended that you upgrade to the latest stable version. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0699 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0704 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0705 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0739 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00018.html Solution: All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.10" Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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