Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ethereal (MDKSA-2004:024)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 14123

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

A number of serious issues have been discovered in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.2. Stefan Esser discovered thirteen buffer overflows in the NetFlow, IGAP, EIGRP, PGM, IrDA, BGP, ISUP, and TCAP dissectors. Jonathan Heusser discovered that a carefully-crafted RADIUS packet could cause Ethereal to crash. It was also found that a zero-length Presentation protocol selector could make Ethereal crash.
Finally, a corrupt color filter file could cause a segmentation fault.
It is possible, through the exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities, to cause Ethereal to crash or run arbitrary code by injecting a malicious, malformed packet onto the wire, by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file, or by creating a malformed color filter file.

The updated packages bring Ethereal to version 0.10.3 which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Solution

Update the affected ethereal package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 14123

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2004-024.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 7/31/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ethereal, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.1, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0176, CVE-2004-0365, CVE-2004-0367

MDKSA: 2004:024

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