Debian Security Advisory
DSA-613-1 ethereal -- infinite loop
- Date Reported:
- 21 Dec 2004
- Affected Packages:
- ethereal
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 11943.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1142. - More information:
-
Brian Caswell discovered that an improperly formatted SMB packet could make ethereal hang and eat CPU endlessly.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody9.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.8-1.
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_0.9.4-1woody9.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9.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_0.9.4-1woody9.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody9_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.