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Secunia Advisory SA7841

RedHat updates to ethereal

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SA7841

Get alerted and manage the vulnerability life cycle

Release Date

2003-01-10

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Operating System

Red Hat Linux 7.2

Red Hat Linux 7.3

Red Hat Linux 8.0

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

RedHat has issued updates to ethereal. Ethereal fails to handle BGP correctly due to integer signedness errors which causes ethereal to enter an infinte loop.

Also problems has been identified in the way LMP, PPP and TDS is handled, this could lead to execution of arbitrary code.

Solution
Updated packages:
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RedHat updates to ethereal

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