Debian: DSA 414-2 High: Ethereal Buffer Overflow and Integer Overflows

Timo Sirainen discovered several vulnerabilities in ethereal, a
network traffic analyzer. These include one-byte buffer overflows in
the AIM, GIOP Gryphon, OSPF, PPTP, Quake, Quake2, Quake3, Rsync, SMB,
SMPP, and TSP dissectors, and integer overflows in the Mount and PPP
dissectors.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.4-1woody4.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not appear to contain these
vulnerabilities.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems are fixed in version
0.9.12-1.

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
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