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Ethereal Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12024
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Release Date:
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2004-07-07
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Last Update:
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2004-09-08
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Popularity:
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10,742 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 local network
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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-2004-0633
CVE-2004-0634
CVE-2004-0635
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Description:
Three vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ethereal, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
1) An unspecified error within the iSNS dissector can reportedly make Ethereal abort in certain cases.
This vulnerability affects versions 0.10.3 and 0.10.4.
2) An unspecified error within the SMB dissector may crash the application when SID snooping is enabled and there is no policy name for a handle.
This vulnerability affects versions 0.9.15 through 0.10.4.
3) An unspecified error within the SNMP dissector can be exploited to crash the application via a malformed or missing community string.
This vulnerability affects versions 0.8.15 through 0.10.4.
Solution:
Update to version 0.10.5 when it becomes available:
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html
Disable the affected protocol dissectors.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.
Changelog:
2004-07-12: Added CVE references.
2004-09-08: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability notes.
Original Advisory:
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00015.html
Other References:
US-CERT VU#835846:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/835846
US-CERT VU#829422:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/829422
US-CERT VU#518782:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/518782
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