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Debian Ethereal Severe Buffer Overflow Notice DSA 511-1

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2004
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Ethereal has critical buffer overflows affecting Debian Woody, update recommended to maintain security.
Several buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in ethereal.

Summary

Several buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in ethereal, a
network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilites are described in the
ethereal advisory "enpa-sa-00013". Of these, only some parts of
CAN-2004-0176 affect the version of ethereal in Debian woody.
CAN-2004-0367 and CAN-2004-0365 are not applicable to this version.

For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been
fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.10.3-1.

We recommend that you update your ethereal package.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper con...

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Package: ethereal

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