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Fedora: 2010-782 Major: Ethereal Memory Leak Impact and Fixes

Many security vulnerabilities have been fixed since the previous release.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-461 2006-04-26 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : ethereal Version : 0.99.0 Release : fc4.1 Summary : Network traffic analyzer Description : Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: Many security vulnerabilities have been fixed since the previous release. * The H.248 dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937 * The UMA dissector could go into an infinite loop. Versions affected: 0.10.12 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1933 * The X.509if dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937 * The SRVLOC dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.10.0 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937 * The H.245 dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.10.13 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937 * Ethereal's OID printing routine was susceptible to an off-by-one error. Versions affected: 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1932 * The COPS dissector could overflow a buffer. Versions affected: 0.9.15 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1935 * The ALCAP dissector could overflow a buffer. Versions affected: 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1934 Under a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Coverity has uncovered a number of vulnerabilities in Ethereal: * The statistics counter could crash Ethereal. Versions affected:0.10.10 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937 * Ethereal could crash while reading a malformed Sniffer capture. Versions affected: 0.8.12 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1938 * An invalid display filter could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.16 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939 * The general packet dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.10.9 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937 * The AIM dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.10.7 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937 * The RPC dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.8 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939 * The DCERPC dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.16 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939 * The ASN.1 dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.8 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939 * The SMB PIPE dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.8.20 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1938 * The BER dissector could loop excessively. Versions affected: 0.10.4 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1933 * The SNDCP dissector could abort. Versions affected: 0.10.4 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1940 * The Network Instruments file code could overrun a buffer. Versions affected: 0.10.0 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1934 * The NetXray/Windows Sniffer file code could overrun a buffer. Versions affected: 0.10.13 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1934 * The GSM SMS dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.16 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939 * The ALCAP dissector could overrun a buffer. Versions affected: 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1934 * The telnet dissector could overrun a buffer. Versions affected: 0.8.5 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1936 * ASN.1-based dissectors could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.10 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939 * The H.248 dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.10.11 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1937 * The DCERPC NT dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.14 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939 * The PER dissector could crash Ethereal. Versions affected: 0.9.14 - 0.10.14. CVE: CVE-2006-1939 ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Tue Apr 25 2006 Radek Vokál 0.99.0-fc4.1 - update to 0.99.0 - fix segfault when rearranging columns ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: 462f828b3f5708f7a9225952e1b01f3a10c8c28f SRPMS/ethereal-0.99.0-fc4.1.src.rpm 10af5f56d3be8b24ba3cbd1930f5edfa02fefc4f ppc/ethereal-0.99.0-fc4.1.ppc.rpm 3c3424e8a2840994ed64e7071096a82567be076a ppc/ethereal-gnome-0.99.0-fc4.1.ppc.rpm 6ee0df23b23b6b52587d3041b5b8435fcf9b7f18 ppc/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.99.0-fc4.1.ppc.rpm 2f9a992da291462ff8496525352b809f0338c2b4 x86_64/ethereal-0.99.0-fc4.1.x86_64.rpm ba97833a340bb014beb26e6a74b0ed4a4169bc2f x86_64/ethereal-gnome-0.99.0-fc4.1.x86_64.rpm 8d03f722713ee6e55cefc149af72440733f0d48f x86_64/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.99.0-fc4.1.x86_64.rpm 6a24e66c6d732387713af9f83a6cd01508f2c73f i386/ethereal-0.99.0-fc4.1.i386.rpm bf074656cfb1a0bf70264fd27a08ad0cc3602110 i386/ethereal-gnome-0.99.0-fc4.1.i386.rpm 9323b27214f01f1dc34a082ff1c5961773319f9b i386/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.99.0-fc4.1.i386.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- fedora-announce-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Multiple vulnerabilities have been addressed in Fedora Core 4 for Wireshark 0.99.0, significantly improving both stability and security.. Fedora Update,Ethereal Network Analyzer,Security Patch,Critical Update. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Apr 26, 2006 •Critical Fedora