Debian Security Advisory

DSA-511-1 ethereal -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:
30 May 2004
Affected Packages:
ethereal
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9952.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0176.
More information:

Several buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities are described in the ethereal advisory "enpa-sa-00013". Of these, only some parts of CAN-2004-0176 affect the version of ethereal in Debian woody. CAN-2004-0367 and CAN-2004-0365 are not applicable to this version.

For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.3-1.

We recommend that you update your ethereal package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-common_0.9.4-1woody7_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/ethereal-dev_0.9.4-1woody7_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ethereal/tethereal_0.9.4-1woody7_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.