Twenty-eight vulnerabilities have been identified in Ethereal, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system or cause a denial of service. These flaws are due to infinite loop, off-by-one, and buffer overflow errors affecting the H.248, UMA, X.509if, SRVLOC, H.245, COPS, ALCAP, AIM, RPC, DCERPC, ASN.1, SMB PIPE, BER, SNDCP, telnet, DCERPC NT, and PER dissectors, and the OID printing, statistics counter, Network Instruments, and NetXray/Windows Sniffer modules, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or crash a vulnerable application via a specially crafted packet or a malformed trace file.
Affected Products
Ethereal versions 0.8.5 through 0.10.14
Solution
Upgrade to Ethereal version 0.99.0 :
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#releases
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1501
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00023.html
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Coverity and the vendor
ChangeLog
2006-04-24 : Initial release
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