The Mandriva Security Team published a new security update: MDKSA-2005:193-1 - Updated ethereal packages fix multiple vulnerabilities for Mandriva Linux. Here the announcement:

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2005:193-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : ethereal
Date : October 26, 2005
Affected: 10.2, 2006.0
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Problem Description:

Ethereal 0.10.13 is now available fixing a number of security
vulnerabilities in various dissectors:

- the ISAKMP dissector could exhaust system memory
- the FC-FCS dissector could exhaust system memory
- the RSVP dissector could exhaust system memory
- the ISIS LSP dissector could exhaust system memory
- the IrDA dissector could crash
- the SLIMP3 dissector could overflow a buffer
- the BER dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop
- the SCSI dissector could dereference a null pointer and crash
- the sFlow dissector could dereference a null pointer and crash
- the RTnet dissector could dereference a null pointer and crash
- the SigComp UDVM could go into an infinite loop or crash
- the X11 dissector could attempt to divide by zero
- if SMB transaction payload reassembly is enabled the SMB dissector
could crash (by default this is disabled)
- if the "Dissect unknown RPC program numbers" option was enabled, the
ONC RPC dissector might be able to exhaust system memory (by default
this is disabled)
- the AgentX dissector could overflow a buffer
- the WSP dissector could free an invalid pointer
- iDEFENSE discovered a buffer overflow in the SRVLOC dissector

The new version of Ethereal is provided and corrects all of these
issues.

Update:

An infinite loop in the IRC dissector was also discovered and fixed
after the 0.10.13 release. The updated packages include the fix.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-3241
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-3242
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-3243
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-3244
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-3245
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-3246
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-3247
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-3248
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-3249
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-3184
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 10.2:
30d68fb7d3dd3e10f99ce0e4067e29e3 10.2/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.13-0.2.102mdk.i586.rpm
ee195abe7f3fd9abe3db39cd3b497a8c 10.2/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.13-0.2.102mdk.i586.rpm
8930ea673040d37f41ad955412ba3623 10.2/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.13-0.2.102mdk.i586.rpm
3bc4bd7208feaf92f77f3a83b0f3281b 10.2/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.13-0.2.102mdk.i586.rpm
7fe65f07557a9dcb662eb1b6967ce31f 10.2/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.13-0.2.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.2/X86_64:
cb69d27d896a19a03fe1c05effffe98d x86_64/10.2/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.13-0.2.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
28dca424f2fdef25ab9b5f2115c7b577 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.13-0.2.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
b47935d8d59d817e69b54d2487e12445 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.13-0.2.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
e717805302885ba4af36a16768f93668 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.13-0.2.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
7fe65f07557a9dcb662eb1b6967ce31f x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.13-0.2.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
993d95642384bf74c9ed2f7279caa3b2 2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.13-0.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
a8cb961f3fee116724f8af4ce64f8244 2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.13-0.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
ef572149f1c053ddcf47afa4c704ca58 2006.0/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.13-0.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
21d6112631fa025e0b01b2fe7698aada 2006.0/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.13-0.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
04595febee4cf49a9e851563ef8975c9 2006.0/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.13-0.2.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
a1af50cf48c2d44c44b0068ee265609f x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.13-0.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
c4c26c4bcd136c8a8d540c62e51ba8f5 x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.13-0.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
fc393647ae421ef0e9b60967bc22b65e x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.13-0.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
ca89deabfae41880a7e37e6e70451caf x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.13-0.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
04595febee4cf49a9e851563ef8975c9 x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.13-0.2.20060mdk.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate 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

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

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

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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