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Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA19769
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Release Date:
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2006-04-25
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Popularity:
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12,210 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-1932
CVE-2006-1933
CVE-2006-1934
CVE-2006-1935
CVE-2006-1936
CVE-2006-1937
CVE-2006-1938
CVE-2006-1939
CVE-2006-1940
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Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Ethereal, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to various types of errors including boundary errors, an off-by-one error, an infinite loop error, and several unspecified errors in a multitude of protocol dissectors.
Successful exploitation causes Ethereal to stop responding, consume a large amount of system resources, crash, or execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities affect versions 0.8.5 through 0.10.14.
Solution:
Upgrade to version 0.99.0
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Coverity.
Original Advisory:
http://www.ethereal.com/docs/release-notes/ethereal-0.99.0.html
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00023.html
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