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Red Hat Linux 9 RHSA-2004:001-01 Critical: Ethereal Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2004
Scroller Redhat Esm H88
Recent updates to Ethereal have fixed critical Denial of Service vulnerabilities in Red Hat Linux systems. Users are urged to upgrade immediately to enhance security.
By exploiting these two issues it may be possible to make Ethereal crash by injecting an intentionally malformed packet

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.

5. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 9:

SRPMS:


i386:





6. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name cf02fe0315dcfa46f79c5fbf379a6225 9/en/os/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.0a-0.90.1.src.rpm f7e4fe4f9a4cb47a2e6b42b5cfed5ce3 9/en/os/i386/ethereal-0.10.0a-0.90.1.i386.rpm 686d115defe1ec92cc7a49ffe80bfbe4 9/en/os/i386/ethereal-gnome-0.10.0a-0.90.1.i386.rpm


These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key is available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key

You can verify each package with the following command:

rpm --checksig -v

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:

md5sum


Summary

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2004:001-01
Issue date: 2004-01-07
Updated on: 2004-01-07
Product: Red Hat Linux
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Cross references:
Obsoletes: RHSA-2003:323

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 9 - i386

Bugs Fixed

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