Debian Security Advisory

DSA-528-1 ethereal -- denial of service

Date Reported:

17 Jul 2004

Affected Packages:

ethereal

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0635.

More information:

Several denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities are described in the ethereal advisory "enpa-sa-00015". Of these, only one (CAN-2004-0635) affects the version of ethereal in Debian woody. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to crash ethereal with an invalid SNMP packet.

For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody8.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.5-1.

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_0.9.4-1woody8.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody8_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody8_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody8_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.