Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:38:28 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman wichert@cistron.nl
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of ethereal released
Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman
November 22, 2000
Package : ethereal
Problem type : remote exploit
Debian-specific: no
hacksware reported a buffer overflow in the AFS packet parsing code
in ethereal. Gerald Combs then found more overflows in the netbios
and ntp decoding logic as well. An attacker can exploit those
overflows by sending carefully crafted packets to a network that is
being monitored by ethereal.
This has been fixed in version 0.8.0-2potato and we recommend
you upgrade your ethereal package immediately.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and
sparc. Packages for m68k are not available at this momemt; when
they become available they will be announced on
http://security.debian.org/
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: f82bd9c0d58077d360cc371e5cdc5de0
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato.dsc
MD5 checksum: 01311d5c1a0e5facf93565970dcec04b
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/ethereal_0.8.0.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 297ae32cc23a154497dad6a1f964bdb1
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 82f6fd38b2e7cab8b867ac52dae895fd
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 0a704256847208f89811650cc964644b
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: e388da4ca483cf327dc784c1193d86f3
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 530905f2a5fa5a62ebad6207aec91588
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 30a1e8df61a40ede30a005ad12d43fef
These files will be moved into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/
soon.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/
.
apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable/updates main
dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org