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Debian DSA-511-1 : ethereal - buffer overflows

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15348

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities are described in the ethereal advisory 'enpa-sa-00013'. Of these, only some parts of CAN-2004-0176 affect the version of ethereal in Debian woody.
CAN-2004-0367 and CAN-2004-0365 are not applicable to this version.

Solution

For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody7.

We recommend that you update your ethereal package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-511

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15348

File Name: debian_DSA-511.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ethereal

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2000

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0176

BID: 9952

DSA: 511