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<glsa id="200406-01">
  <title>Ethereal: Multiple security problems</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities including one buffer overflow exist in Ethereal,
    which may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code or crash the program.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Ethereal</product>
  <announced>2004-06-04</announced>
  <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
  <bug>51022</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/ethereal" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.10.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">0.10.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than
    0.10.4, including:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>A buffer overflow in the MMSE dissector.</li>
    <li>Under specific conditions a SIP packet could make Ethereal
    crash.</li>
    <li>The AIM dissector could throw an assertion, causing Ethereal to
    crash.</li>
    <li>The SPNEGO dissector could dereference a null pointer, causing a
    crash.</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker could use these vulnerabilities to crash Ethereal or even
    execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running
    Ethereal, which could be the root user.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    For a temporary workaround you can disable all affected protocol
    dissectors by selecting Analyze-&gt;Enabled Protocols... and deselecting
    them from the list. However, it is strongly recommended to upgrade to
    the latest stable release.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest stable version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv "&gt;=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.4"
    # emerge "&gt;=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.4"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00014.html">Ethereal enpa-sa-00014</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0504">CVE-2004-0504</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0505">CVE-2004-0505</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0506">CVE-2004-0506</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0507">CVE-2004-0507</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>
