Debian Security Advisory
DSA-324-1 ethereal -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 18 Jun 2003
- Affected Packages:
- ethereal
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7878, BugTraq ID 7880, BugTraq ID 7881, BugTraq ID 7883.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0428, CVE-2003-0429, CVE-2003-0431, CVE-2003-0432. - More information:
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Several of the packet dissectors in ethereal contain string handling bugs which could be exploited using a maliciously crafted packet to cause ethereal to consume excessive amounts of memory, crash, or execute arbitrary code.
These vulnerabilities were announced in the following Ethereal security advisory:
https://web.archive.org/web/20121023150245/http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
Ethereal 0.9.4 in Debian 3.0 (woody) is affected by most of the problems described in the advisory, including:
- The DCERPC dissector could try to allocate too much memory while trying to decode an NDR string.
- Bad IPv4 or IPv6 prefix lengths could cause an overflow in the OSI dissector.
- The tvb_get_nstringz0() routine incorrectly handled a zero-length buffer size.
- The BGP, WTP, DNS, 802.11, ISAKMP, WSP, CLNP, and ISIS dissectors handled strings improperly.
The following problems do not affect this version:
- The SPNEGO dissector could segfault while parsing an invalid ASN.1 value.
- The RMI dissector handled strings improperly
as these modules are not present.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody5.
For the old stable distribution (potato) these problems will be fixed in a future advisory.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems are fixed in version 0.9.13-1.
We recommend that you update your ethereal package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5.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_0.9.4-1woody5.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.