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[DSA130] DSA-130-1 ethereal

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-130-1 ethereal

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Ethereal versions prior to 0.9.3 were vulnerable to an allocation error
in the ASN.1 parser. This can be triggered when analyzing traffic using
the SNMP, LDAP, COPS, or Kerberos protocols in ethereal. This
vulnerability was announced in the ethereal security advisory
enpa-sa-00003.
This issue has been corrected in ethereal version 0.8.0-3potato for
Debian 2.2 (potato).
Additionally, a number of vulnerabilities were discussed in ethereal
security advisory
enpa-sa-00004

the version of ethereal in Debian 2.2
(potato) is not vulnerable to the issues raised in this later advisory.
Users of the not-yet-released woody distribution should ensure that they
are running ethereal 0.9.4-1 or a later version.
We recommend you upgrade your ethereal package immediately.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-130
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 4604, 4805, 4806, 4807, 4808

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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