Updated ethereal packages are available for Mandrakelinux 10.0 and 10.1
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Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: ethereal
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2004:152
Date: December 20th, 2004

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1
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Problem Description:

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in Ethereal:

- Matthew Bing discovered a bug in DICOM dissection that could make Ethereal crash (CAN-2004-1139)
- An invalid RTP timestamp could make Ethereal hang and create a large temporary file, possibly filling available disk space (CAN-2004-1140)
- The HTTP dissector could access previously-freed memory, causing a crash (CAN-2004-1141)
- Brian Caswell discovered that an improperly formatted SMB packet could make Ethereal hang, maximizing CPU utilization (CAN-2004-1142)

Ethereal 0.10.8 was released to correct these problems and is being provided.



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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1139
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1140
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1141
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1142
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00016.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandrakelinux 10.0:
61c90e9e55d05652605b84a34f3698e7 10.0/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.8-0.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
1fd62b2141cb2734695cbf959d81e3f7 10.0/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.8-0.1.100mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.0/AMD64:
1c7b879ac9e63fcd6b1466c746c50444 amd64/10.0/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.8-0.1.100mdk.amd64.rpm
1fd62b2141cb2734695cbf959d81e3f7 amd64/10.0/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.8-0.1.100mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.1:
f24eae3daa3a233befe4f0e72434a63e 10.1/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.8-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
7d6b8f25a30b9341abdcd79a2df3632e 10.1/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.8-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
d7af35324f01099ecd7f5c508e9772c1 10.1/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.8-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
a6af51bb444e53eb6074f7651cc9a766 10.1/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.8-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
1225d1aa8c9736d5c8881ea6977f8661 10.1/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.8-0.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64:
5b964b6bfab8b18c901be62d67cecd0d x86_64/10.1/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.8-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
88d70583179facb24a1125cb15913bca x86_64/10.1/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.8-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
f2058262e5aff8117129cf369f0d8b27 x86_64/10.1/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.8-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
a26d93b9b607d1809975d78c83fbaadd x86_64/10.1/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.8-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
1225d1aa8c9736d5c8881ea6977f8661 x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.8-0.1.101mdk.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandrakesoft for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandrakelinux Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandrakelinux at:

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_linux-mandrake.com