RHEL 2.1 : ethereal (RHSA-2002:170)

high Nessus Plugin ID 12319

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated ethereal packages are available which fix several security problems.

Ethereal is a package designed for monitoring network traffic on your system. Several security issues have been found in the Ethereal packages distributed with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server :

Buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via the ISIS dissector. (CVE-2002-0834)

Buffer overflows in Ethereal 0.9.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via (1) the BGP dissector, or (2) the WCP dissector. (CVE-2002-0821)

Ethereal 0.9.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via the (1) SOCKS, (2) RSVP, (3) AFS, or (4) LMP dissectors, which can be caused to core dump (CVE-2002-0822)

A buffer overflow in the X11 dissector in Ethereal before 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code while Ethereal is parsing keysyms.
(CVE-2002-0402)

The DNS dissector in Ethereal before 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed packet that causes Ethereal to enter an infinite loop. (CVE-2002-0403)

A vulnerability in the GIOP dissector in Ethereal before 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
(CVE-2002-0404)

Users of Ethereal should update to the errata packages containing Ethereal version 0.9.6 which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Solution

Update the affected ethereal and / or ethereal-gnome packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 12319

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2002-170.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ethereal-gnome, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ethereal

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-0402, CVE-2002-0403, CVE-2002-0404, CVE-2002-0821, CVE-2002-0822, CVE-2002-0834

RHSA: 2002:170

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