Updated ethereal packages are available for Mandriva Linux
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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: ethereal
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:083
Date: May 10th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.1, 10.2
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Problem Description:

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in previous version of Ethereal that have been fixed in the 0.10.11 release, including:

- The ANSI A and DHCP dissectors are vulnerable to format string vulnerabilities.

- The DISTCC, FCELS, SIP, ISIS, CMIP, CMP, CMS, CRMF, ESS, OCSP, PKIX1Explitit, PKIX Qualified, X.509, Q.931, MEGACO, NCP, ISUP, TCAP and Presentation dissectors are vulnerable to buffer overflows.

- The KINK, WSP, SMB Mailslot, H.245, MGCP, Q.931, RPC, GSM and SMB NETLOGON dissectors are vulnerable to pointer handling errors.

- The LMP, KINK, MGCP, RSVP, SRVLOC, EIGRP, MEGACO, DLSw, NCP and L2TP dissectors are vulnerable to looping problems.

- The Telnet and DHCP dissectors could abort.

- The TZSP, Bittorrent, SMB, MGCP and ISUP dissectors could cause a segmentation fault.

- The WSP, 802.3 Slow protocols, BER, SMB Mailslot, SMB, NDPS, IAX2, RADIUS, SMB PIPE, MRDISC and TCAP dissectors could throw assertions.

- The DICOM, NDPS and ICEP dissectors are vulnerable to memory handling errors.

- The GSM MAP, AIM, Fibre Channel,SRVLOC, NDPS, LDAP and NTLMSSP dissectors could terminate abnormallly.



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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1456
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1457
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1458
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1459
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1460
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1461
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1462
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1463
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1464
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1465
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1466
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1467
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1468
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1469
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1470
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00019.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandrakelinux 10.1:
ae2866749c7a3ceebbd6550ef5a29154 10.1/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
7a27b1b13fd7b9232f078f3c803863c8 10.1/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
b32725663f41c817169c650c04dff15e 10.1/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
f995c192659c93c5a77d12ff0dfb74e3 10.1/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
0d2e9e9478b964b9de67e10dab5996d7 10.1/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64:
a6fdb42381866c6c2df04732a0e2e2f0 x86_64/10.1/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
285be2e4fff2cec54772d08daf994c0f x86_64/10.1/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
a672830433d1bd9c044d081116311406 x86_64/10.1/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
da5bb65a0ac86ad8510c9c82c6c3c798 x86_64/10.1/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
0d2e9e9478b964b9de67e10dab5996d7 x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.2:
f6d236307d9366150aa2cf900b77ad4b 10.2/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
e146cf60690d907aaeb569f59cde8e37 10.2/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
a6ee5615d66e5b33ffe05270069fa921 10.2/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
fa4398c9e4947faff78750b289ee922c 10.2/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
0b13985c69b63df65775240b8991c07e 10.2/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.2/X86_64:
7c9dc07574f92df6e3920da6c1320cfb x86_64/10.2/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
5684d61528aa353ee5ce58d8c99317f9 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
ce979043e16801b2b4565fb2dae4e18f x86_64/10.2/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
1e5af06f5eb143a956fd3a0ee88109e0 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
0b13985c69b63df65775240b8991c07e x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.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 Mandriva for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

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

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