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Ethereal Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA11608
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Release Date:
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2004-05-14
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Last Update:
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2004-06-07
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Popularity:
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10,425 views
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Critical:
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Moderately 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-2004-0504
CVE-2004-0505
CVE-2004-0506
CVE-2004-0507
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Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ethereal, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system or cause a DoS (Denial-of-Service).
1) An error within the handling of SIP packets may under specific conditions be exploited to crash the application. This vulnerability affects version 0.10.3.
2) An error within the AIM protocol dissector can be exploited to crash the application. This vulnerability affects version 0.10.3.
3) A NULL pointer dereference error within the SPNEGO protocol dissector can be exploited to crash the application. This vulnerability affects versions 0.9.8 through 0.10.3.
4) A boundary error within the MMSE protocol dissector can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.
This vulnerability affects versions 0.10.1 through 0.10.3.
Solution:
Update to version 0.10.4.
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html
Disable the affected protocol dissectors.
Changelog:
2004-06-07: Added CVE references.
Original Advisory:
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00014.html
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