Package: ethereal Version: 0.10.10-2sarge4 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: privilige elevation via execution of arbitary code from remote hosts
>From <http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-01.html>: Wireshark 0.99.2 fixes the following vulnerabilities: * The GSM BSSMAP dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.10.11. CVE: CVE-2006-3627 Ilja van Sprundel discovered the following vulnerabilities: * The ANSI MAP dissector was vulnerable to a format string overflow. Versions affected: 0.10.0. CVE: CVE-2006-3628 * The Checkpoint FW-1 dissector was vulnerable to a format string overflow. Versions affected: 0.10.10. CVE: CVE-2006-3628 * The MQ dissector was vulnerable to a format string overflow. Versions affected: 0.10.4. CVE: CVE-2006-3628 * The XML dissector was vulnerable to a format string overflow. Versions affected: 0.10.13. CVE: CVE-2006-3628 * The MOUNT dissector could attempt to allocate large amounts of memory. Versions affected: 0.9.4. CVE: CVE-2006-3629 * The NCP NMAS and NDPS dissectors were susceptible to off-by-one errors. Versions affected: 0.9.7. CVE: CVE-2006-3630 * The NTP dissector was vulnerable to a format string overflow. Versions affected: 0.10.13. CVE: CVE-2006-3628 * The SSH dissector was vulnerable to an infinite loop. Versions affected: 0.9.10. CVE: CVE-2006-3631 * The NFS dissector may have been susceptible to a buffer overflow. Versions affected: 0.8.16. CVE: CVE-2006-3632 Impact It may be possible to make Ethereal crash, use up available memory, or run arbitrary code by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages ethereal depends on: ii ethereal-common 0.99.0-1 network traffic analyser (common f ii libadns1 1.1-4 Asynchronous-capable DNS client li ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.0-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libcomerr2 1.39-1 common error description library ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnutls13 1.4.0-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.18-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libkrb53 1.4.3-7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpcap0.8 0.9.4-2 System interface for user-level pa ii libpcre3 6.4-2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages ethereal recommends: ii gksu 1.9.1-2 graphical frontend to su -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]