Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1127-1 ethereal -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
28 Jul 2006
Affected Packages:
ethereal
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 373913, Bug 375694.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3628, CVE-2006-3629, CVE-2006-3630, CVE-2006-3631, CVE-2006-3632.
More information:

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Ethereal network sniffer, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2006-3628

    Ilja van Sprundel discovered that the FW-1 and MQ dissectors are vulnerable to format string attacks.

  • CVE-2006-3629

    Ilja van Sprundel discovered that the MOUNT dissector is vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion.

  • CVE-2006-3630

    Ilja van Sprundel discovered off-by-one overflows in the NCP NMAS and NDPS dissectors.

  • CVE-2006-3631

    Ilja van Sprundel discovered a buffer overflow in the NFS dissector.

  • CVE-2006-3632

    Ilja van Sprundel discovered that the SSH dissector is vulnerable to denial of service through an infinite loop.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.10-2sarge6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.2-1 of wireshark, the sniffer formerly known as ethereal.

We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge6_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6_sparc.deb

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