- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE :ethereal SUMMARY :buffer overflow DATE :2002-08-30 07:30 UTC - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW The ISIS protocol dissector in Ethereal 0.9.5 and earlier versions is susceptible to a buffer overflow. DETAIL It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or hang by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire, or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. It may be possible to make Ethereal run arbitrary code by exploiting the buffer and pointer problems. The full advisory can be read at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-analyzer/ethereal-0.9.5-r2 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge ethereal emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - --------------------------------------------------------------------
Gentoo Linux Advisory: ethereal
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