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Fedora Core 5 : ethereal-0.99.0-fc5.1 (2006-456)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 21274

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Many security vulnerabilities have been fixed since the previous release.

 - The H.248 dissector could crash. Versions affected:
 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937

 - The UMA dissector could go into an infinite loop.
 Versions affected: 0.10.12 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1933

 - The X.509if dissector could crash. Versions affected:
 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937

 - The SRVLOC dissector could crash. Versions affected:
 0.10.0 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937

 - The H.245 dissector could crash. Versions affected:
 0.10.13 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937

 - Ethereal's OID printing routine was susceptible to an off-by-one error. Versions affected: 0.10.14. CVE:
 CVE-2006-1932

 - The COPS dissector could overflow a buffer. Versions affected: 0.9.15 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1935

 - The ALCAP dissector could overflow a buffer. Versions affected: 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1934

Under a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Coverity has uncovered a number of vulnerabilities in Ethereal :

 - The statistics counter could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.10.10 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937

 - Ethereal could crash while reading a malformed Sniffer capture. Versions affected: 0.8.12 - 0.10.14. CVE:
 CVE-2006-1938

 - An invalid display filter could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.16 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939

 - The general packet dissector could crash Ethereal.
 Versions affected: 0.10.9 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937

 - The AIM dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.10.7 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937

 - The RPC dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.8 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939

 - The DCERPC dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.16 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939

 - The ASN.1 dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.8 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939

 - The SMB PIPE dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.8.20 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1938

 - The BER dissector could loop excessively. Versions affected: 0.10.4 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1933

 - The SNDCP dissector could abort. Versions affected:
 0.10.4 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1940

 - The Network Instruments file code could overrun a buffer. Versions affected: 0.10.0 - 0.10.14. CVE:
 CVE-2006-1934

 - The NetXray/Windows Sniffer file code could overrun a buffer. Versions affected: 0.10.13 - 0.10.14. CVE:
 CVE-2006-1934

 - The GSM SMS dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.16 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939

 - The ALCAP dissector could overrun a buffer. Versions affected: 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1934

 - The telnet dissector could overrun a buffer. Versions affected: 0.8.5 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1936

 - ASN.1-based dissectors could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.10 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939

 - The H.248 dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.10.11 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937

 - The DCERPC NT dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.14 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939

 - The PER dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.14 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee52b2cf

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 21274

File Name: fedora_2006-456.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/26/2006

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ethereal, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ethereal-gnome, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ethereal-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1932, CVE-2006-1933, CVE-2006-1934, CVE-2006-1935, CVE-2006-1936, CVE-2006-1937, CVE-2006-1938, CVE-2006-1939, CVE-2006-1940

FEDORA: 2006-456