Debian Security Advisory
DSA-162-1 ethereal -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 06 Sep 2002
- Affected Packages:
- ethereal
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 5573.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0834. - More information:
-
Ethereal developers discovered a buffer overflow in the ISIS protocol dissector. It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or hang by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire, or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. It may be possible to make Ethereal run arbitrary code by exploiting the buffer and pointer problems.
This problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody2 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 0.8.0-4potato.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 0.9.6-1 for the unstable distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.8.0-4potato.1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_ia64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.