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Ethereal Protocol Dissector Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10119
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Release Date:
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2003-11-03
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Popularity:
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8,947 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.x
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Ethereal, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
Boundary errors in the handling of the GTP and SOCKS protocols can be exploited to cause buffer overflows, which may allow execution of arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.
Unspecified errors in the handling of ISAKMP and MEGACO packets can be exploited to crash Ethereal or Tethereal.
Successful exploitation requires that Ethereal or Tethereal is running or a malicious packet trace file is read.
Solution:
Update to version 0.9.16.
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html
Disable GTP, ISAKMP, MEGACO, and SOCKS protocol dissectors.
Original Advisory:
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00011.html
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