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:
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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.
- CVE-2006-3628
- Fixed in:
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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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge6.diff.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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge6_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.