openSUSE 10 Security Update : ethereal (ethereal-2246)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27207

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Various problems have been fixed in the network analyzer Ethereal, most leading to crashes of the ethereal program.

CVE-2006-5740: A unspecified vulnerability in the LDAP dissector could be used to crash Ethereal.

CVE-2006-4574: A single \0 byte heap overflow was fixed in the MIME multipart dissector. Potential of exploitability is unknown, but considered low.

CVE-2006-4805: A denial of service problem in the XOT dissector can cause it to take up huge amount of memory and crash ethereal.

CVE-2006-5469: The WBXML dissector could be used to crash ethereal.

CVE-2006-5468: A NULL pointer dereference in the HTTP dissector could crash ethereal.

Solution

Update the affected ethereal packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27207

File Name: suse_ethereal-2246.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ethereal-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ethereal

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4574, CVE-2006-4805, CVE-2006-5468, CVE-2006-5469, CVE-2006-5740

Detections

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