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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200501-27">
+ <title>Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal, which may allow an attacker to
+ run arbitrary code, crash the program or perform DoS by CPU and disk
+ utilization.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">ethereal</product>
+ <announced>2005-01-20</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2005-01-20</revised>
+ <bug>78559</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-analyzer/ethereal" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.10.9</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.10.9</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier
+ than 0.10.9, including:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>The COPS dissector could go into
+ an infinite loop (CAN-2005-0006).</li>
+ <li>The DLSw dissector could
+ cause an assertion, making Ethereal exit prematurely
+ (CAN-2005-0007).</li>
+ <li>The DNP dissector could cause memory
+ corruption (CAN-2005-0008).</li>
+ <li>The Gnutella dissector could cause
+ an assertion, making Ethereal exit prematurely (CAN-2005-0009).</li>
+ <li>The MMSE dissector could free statically-allocated memory
+ (CAN-2005-0010).</li>
+ <li>The X11 dissector is vulnerable to a string
+ buffer overflow (CAN-2005-0084).</li>
+ </ul>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ An attacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash
+ Ethereal, perform DoS by CPU and disk space utilization or even execute
+ arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Ethereal, which
+ could be the root user.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ For a temporary workaround you can disable all affected protocol
+ dissectors by selecting Analyze-&gt;Enabled Protocols... and deselecting
+ them from the list. However, it is strongly recommended to upgrade to
+ the latest stable version.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.9"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0006">CAN-2005-0006</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0007">CAN-2005-0007</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0008">CAN-2005-0008</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0009">CAN-2005-0009</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0010">CAN-2005-0010</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0084">CAN-2005-0084</uri>
+ <uri link="http://www.ethereal.com/news/item_20050120_01.html">Ethereal Release Notes</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-01-18T21:23:59Z">
+ lewk
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-01-20T22:30:28Z">
+ lewk
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>