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Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector and zlib Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16225
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Release Date:
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2005-07-27
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Last Update:
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2005-08-11
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Popularity:
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11,413 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-2005-2360
CVE-2005-2361
CVE-2005-2362
CVE-2005-2363
CVE-2005-2364
CVE-2005-2365
CVE-2005-2366
CVE-2005-2367
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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.
1) Various types of errors including NULL pointer dereference errors, format string errors, infinite loop errors, and boundary errors exists in a multitude of protocol dissectors.
2) Ethereal Windows installer ships with a vulnerable version of zlib library.
For more information:
SA15949
SA16137
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 0.10.11
Solution:
Update to version 0.10.12.
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
Discovered by the vendor and the following people:
* Steve Grubb, Red Hat
* vade79
Changelog:
2005-07-28: Added CVE references.
2005-07-29: Added CVE references.
2005-08-08: Added link to iDEFENSE advisory.
2005-08-11: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
Ethereal.com:
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00020.html
iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=289&type=vulnerabilities
Other References:
SA15949:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15949/
SA16137:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16137/
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