GLSA-200507-27 : Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 19329

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200507-27 (Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities)

There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.12, including:
The SMB dissector could overflow a buffer or exhaust memory (CAN-2005-2365).
iDEFENSE discovered that several dissectors are vulnerable to format string overflows (CAN-2005-2367).
Additionally multiple potential crashes in many dissectors have been fixed, see References for further details.
Impact :

An attacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash Ethereal or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Ethereal, which could be the root user.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12'

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19329

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200507-27.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 7/31/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ethereal

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2360, CVE-2005-2361, CVE-2005-2362, CVE-2005-2363, CVE-2005-2364, CVE-2005-2365, CVE-2005-2366, CVE-2005-2367

BID: 14399

GLSA: 200507-27

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