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Fedora Core Advisory: ethereal


Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-219
2004-07-14


Product : Fedora Core 1
Name : ethereal
Version : 0.10.5
Release : 0.1.1
Summary : Network traffic analyzer

Description :
Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating
systems.

This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and
filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains
plugins and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface
is packaged separately to GTK+ package.


Update Information:

Issues have been discovered in the following protocol
dissectors:

  • The iSNS dissector could make Ethereal abort in some cases.
    (0.10.3 – 0.10.4) CAN-2004-0633
  • SMB SID snooping could crash if there was no policy name for a
    handle. (0.9.15 – 0.10.4) CAN-2004-0634
  • The SNMP dissector could crash due to a malformed or missing
    community string. (0.8.15 – 0.10.4) CAN-2004-0635

Impact:

It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or run arbitrary code
by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire or by
convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Resolution:

Upgrade to 0.10.5.

If you are running a version prior to 0.10.5 and you cannot
upgrade, you can disable all of the protocol dissectors listed
above by selecting Analyze->Enabled Protocols… and deselecting
them from the list. For SMB, you can alternatively disable SID
snooping in the SMB protocol preferences. However, it is strongly
recommended that you upgrade to 0.10.5.

  • Fri Jul 09 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com>
    0.10.5-0.1.1

    • Update to ethereal-0.10.5 for various security bugfixes.

This update can be downloaded from:


http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/

9751b92c7bdefaaf6745b034c8e3204e
SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.5-0.1.1.src.rpm
34c62134a742a1fce28a37266f0a8e7c
x86_64/ethereal-0.10.5-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm
b002b7b82e68596c972c062b3ad95f9e
x86_64/ethereal-gnome-0.10.5-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm
4710db2e7d93cf0e9e7ddb3d4ab20d4b
x86_64/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.5-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm
ecc5eab62824dc34c8de6c4f12a8b8bf
i386/ethereal-0.10.5-0.1.1.i386.rpm
1c5004476fe460260699f713cee0ca3a
i386/ethereal-gnome-0.10.5-0.1.1.i386.rpm
ae8b276396b0312aa29d032b5f24fd2a
i386/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.5-0.1.1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the ‘up2date’ command.



Philipp Knirsch


Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-220
2004-07-14


Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : ethereal
Version : 0.10.5
Release : 0.2.1
Summary : Network traffic analyzer

Description :
Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating
systems.

This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and
filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains
plugins and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface
is packaged separately to GTK+ package.


Update Information:

Issues have been discovered in the following protocol
dissectors:

  • The iSNS dissector could make Ethereal abort in some cases.
    (0.10.3 – 0.10.4) CAN-2004-0633
  • SMB SID snooping could crash if there was no policy name for a
    handle. (0.9.15 – 0.10.4) CAN-2004-0634
  • The SNMP dissector could crash due to a malformed or missing
    community string. (0.8.15 – 0.10.4) CAN-2004-0635

Impact:

It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or run arbitrary code
by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire or by
convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Resolution:

Upgrade to 0.10.5.

If you are running a version prior to 0.10.5 and you cannot
upgrade, you can disable all of the protocol dissectors listed
above by selecting Analyze->Enabled Protocols… and deselecting
them from the list. For SMB, you can alternatively disable SID
snooping in the SMB protocol preferences. However, it is strongly
recommended that you upgrade to 0.10.5.

  • Fri Jul 09 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com>
    0.10.5-0.2.1

    • Update to ethereal-0.10.5 for security fixes.

This update can be downloaded from:


http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/

1f4254c343bbfa2c2e98d9bb49340a5f
SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.5-0.2.1.src.rpm
c98d1e9da160d1400592b947fe308b10
x86_64/ethereal-0.10.5-0.2.1.x86_64.rpm
ab66853ce5a23be083b8adad4dc9f9aa
x86_64/ethereal-gnome-0.10.5-0.2.1.x86_64.rpm
ce1e4e540a4e84f96a9dbf7e0956aef5
x86_64/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.5-0.2.1.x86_64.rpm
9bfbac5d3d743c8ef214724fb95a6356
i386/ethereal-0.10.5-0.2.1.i386.rpm
0b15320109ba9ee5bb1a4b32a7841e39
i386/ethereal-gnome-0.10.5-0.2.1.i386.rpm
ea18577656d29850cc438c9c2d0aec4c
i386/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.5-0.2.1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the ‘up2date’ command.



Philipp Knirsch

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