Debian Security Advisory

DSA-718-2 ethereal -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
28 Apr 2005
Affected Packages:
ethereal
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0739.
More information:

[ This version lists the correct packages in the packages section. ]

A buffer overflow has been detected in the IAPP dissector of Ethereal, a commonly used network traffic analyser. A remote attacker may be able to overflow a buffer using a specially crafted packet. More problems have been discovered which don't apply to the version in woody but are fixed in sid as well.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody12.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.10-1.

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_0.9.4-1woody12.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12.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_0.9.4-1woody12_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody12_sparc.deb

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

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