An Ethereal update has been released for Gentoo Linux

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-27
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: High
Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: July 28, 2005
Bugs: #100316
ID: 200507-27

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Synopsis
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Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination.



Background
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Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.10.12 >= 0.10.12

Description
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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
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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
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12"

References
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[ 1 ] Ethereal enpa-sa-00020
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00020.html
[ 2 ] CAN-2005-2360
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2360
[ 3 ] CAN-2005-2361
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2361
[ 4 ] CAN-2005-2362
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2362
[ 5 ] CAN-2005-2363
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2363
[ 6 ] CAN-2005-2364
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2364
[ 7 ] CAN-2005-2365
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2365
[ 8 ] CAN-2005-2366
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2366
[ 9 ] CAN-2005-2367
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2367

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-27.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0