Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1171-1 ethereal -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

07 Sep 2006

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 384528, Bug 334880.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-4333, CVE-2005-3241, CVE-2005-3242, CVE-2005-3243, CVE-2005-3244, CVE-2005-3246, CVE-2005-3248.

More information:

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

CVE-2006-4333
It was discovered that the Q.2391 dissector is vulnerable to denial of service caused by memory exhaustion.
CVE-2005-3241
It was discovered that the FC-FCS, RSVP and ISIS-LSP dissectors are vulnerable to denial of service caused by memory exhaustion.
CVE-2005-3242
It was discovered that the IrDA and SMB dissectors are vulnerable to denial of service caused by memory corruption.
CVE-2005-3243
It was discovered that the SLIMP3 and AgentX dissectors are vulnerable to code injection caused by buffer overflows.
CVE-2005-3244
It was discovered that the BER dissector is vulnerable to denial of service caused by an infinite loop.
CVE-2005-3246
It was discovered that the NCP and RTnet dissectors are vulnerable to denial of service caused by a null pointer dereference.
CVE-2005-3248
It was discovered that the X11 dissector is vulnerable to denial of service caused by a division through zero.

This update also fixes a 64 bit-specific regression in the ASN.1 decoder, which was introduced in a previous DSA.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.10-2sarge8.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.2-5.1 of wireshark, the network 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_0.10.10-2sarge8.dsc; 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_0.10.10-2sarge8.diff.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_arm.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.10.10-2sarge8_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.10.10-2sarge8_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.10.10-2sarge8_sparc.deb

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