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SUSE-SA:2006:065: ethereal

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the ethereal package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2006:065 (ethereal).

Various problems have been fixed in the network analyzer Ethereal (now called
Wireshark), most of them leading to crashes of the ethereal program.

CVE-2006-5740: An unspecified vulnerability in the LDAP dissector
could be used to crash Ethereal.

CVE-2006-4574: A single \0 byte heap overflow was fixed in the MIME multipart
dissector. Potential of exploitability is unknown, but considered low.

CVE-2006-4805: A denial of service problem in the XOT dissector can cause
it to take up huge amount of memory and crash ethereal.

CVE-2006-5469: The WBXML dissector could be used to crash ethereal.

CVE-2006-5468: A NULL pointer dereference in the HTTP dissector could
crash ethereal.

Solution : http://www.suse.de/security/http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_65_ethereal.html
Network Security Threat Level: Medium

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