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Debian DSA-853-1 : ethereal - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 19961

Synopsis

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

Description

Several security problems have been discovered in ethereal, a commonly used network traffic analyser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

 - CAN-2005-2360 Memory allocation errors in the LDAP dissector can cause a denial of service.

 - CAN-2005-2361

 Various errors in the AgentX, PER, DOCSIS, RADIUS, Telnet, IS-IS, HTTP, DCERPC, DHCP and SCTP dissectors can cause a denial of service.

 - CAN-2005-2363

 Various errors in the SMPP, 802.3, H1 and DHCP dissectors can cause a denial of service.

 - CAN-2005-2364

 NULL pointer dereferences in the WBXML and GIOP dissectors can cause a denial of service.

 - CAN-2005-2365

 A buffer overflow and NULL pointer dereferences in the SMB dissector can cause a denial of service.

 - CAN-2005-2366

 Wrong address calculation in the BER dissector can cause an infinite loop or abortion.

 - CAN-2005-2367

 Format string vulnerabilities in several dissectors allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary memory locations and thus gain privileges.

Solution

Upgrade the ethereal packages.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody13.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.10-2sarge3.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-853

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19961

File Name: debian_DSA-853.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/11/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

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:debian:debian_linux:3.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ethereal

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2005

Reference Information

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

DSA: 853