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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE : ethereal
SUMMARY : Several vulnerabilities
DATE : 2003-06-25 17:06:00
ID : CLA-2003:662
RELEVANT
RELEASES : 7.0, 8, 9

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DESCRIPTION
Ethereal[1] is a powerful network traffic analyzer with a graphical
usr interface (GUI).

This update announcement addresses several vulnerabilities[2,3] in
ethereal versions <= 0.9.12. These vulnerabilities can be exploited
by an attacker who can insert crafted packets in the wire being
monitored by ethereal or make an user open a trace file with such
packets inside. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities can
lead to denial of service conditions and/or remote execution of
arbitrary code.

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

- Denial of Service (DoS) in the DCERPC dissector when trying to
decode a NDR string[4];
- Buffer overflow in the OSI dissector when decoding IPv4 or IPv6
prefixes[5];
- Denial of Service (DoS) in the SPNEGO dissector when parsing an
invalid ASN.1 value[6];
- Memory handling error in the tvb_get_nstringz0() routine when
handling a zero-length buffer size[7];
- Handling string vulnerabilities in the BGP, WTP, DNS, 802.11,
ISAKMP, WSP, CLNP, ISIS and RMI dissectors[8].

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
the names CAN-2003-04{28,29,30,31,32} to these issues, respectively.


SOLUTION
All ethereal users should upgrade their packages.


REFERENCES:
1.http://www.ethereal.com
2.http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
3.http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/bugz...ug.cgi?id=8687
4.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename...=CAN-2003-0428
5.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename...=CAN-2003-0429
6.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename...=CAN-2003-0430
7.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename...=CAN-2003-0431
8.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename...=CAN-2003-0432


UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...70_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...80_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...0_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/...90_1cl.src.rpm


ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
The apt tool can be used to perform RPM packages upgrades:

- run: apt-get update
- after that, execute: apt-get upgrade

Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples
can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atual...#apt?idioma=en

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All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. The key and instructions
on how to import it can be found at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/segur...ave/?idioma=en
Instructions on how to check the signatures of the RPM packages can be
found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/segur...ica/?idioma=en

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All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en

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