GLSA-200604-17 : Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors

critical Nessus Plugin ID 21299

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-200604-17 (Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors)

Coverity discovered numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.99.0, including:
buffer overflows in the ALCAP (CVE-2006-1934), COPS (CVE-2006-1935) and telnet (CVE-2006-1936) dissectors.
buffer overflows in the NetXray/Windows Sniffer and Network Instruments file code (CVE-2006-1934).
For further details please consult the references below.
Impact :

An attacker might be able to exploit 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-0.99.0'

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 21299

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200604-17.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 4/28/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2006

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

BID: 17682

GLSA: 200604-17

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