Debian Security Advisory
DSA-258-1 ethereal -- format string vulnerability
- Date Reported:
- 10 Mar 2003
- Affected Packages:
- ethereal
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7049.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0081. - More information:
-
Georgi Guninski discovered a problem in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. The program contains a format string vulnerability that could probably lead to execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody3.
The old stable distribution (potato) does not seem to be affected by this problem.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.9-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3.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_0.9.4-1woody3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.