MDKSA-2003:070
- Package name
- ethereal
- Date
- 2003-06-23
- Advisory ID
- MDKSA-2003:070
- Affected versions
- 9.1 i586 , 9.1 i586
Problem description
A number of string handling bugs were found in the packet dissectors in ethereal that can be exploited using specially crafted packets to cause ethereal to consume excessive amounts of memory, crash, or even execute arbitray code. These vulnerabilities have been fixed upsteam in ethereal 0.9.13 and all users are encouraged to upgrade.
Updated packages
9.1 i586
cc375732dd25961875bfda6356c09dd6 ppc/9.1/RPMS/ethereal-0.9.13-1.1mdk.ppc.rpm e36b73caf5b8ab321550e54d33ca8ac6 ppc/9.1/SRPMS/ethereal-0.9.13-1.1mdk.src.rpm
9.1 i586
b1564371c3ffbe52f832b1c9a7e05644 9.1/RPMS/ethereal-0.9.13-1.1mdk.i586.rpm e36b73caf5b8ab321550e54d33ca8ac6 9.1/SRPMS/ethereal-0.9.13-1.1mdk.src.rpm