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Package name	ethereal
Date	May 10th, 2005
Advisory ID	MDKSA-2005:083
Affected versions	10.1, 10.2

Problem Description

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in previous version of
Ethereal that have been fixed in the 0.10.11 release, including:

- The ANSI A and DHCP dissectors are vulnerable to format string
vulnerabilities.

- The DISTCC, FCELS, SIP, ISIS, CMIP, CMP, CMS, CRMF, ESS, OCSP,
PKIX1Explitit, PKIX Qualified, X.509, Q.931, MEGACO, NCP, ISUP, TCAP
and Presentation dissectors are vulnerable to buffer overflows.

- The KINK, WSP, SMB Mailslot, H.245, MGCP, Q.931, RPC, GSM and SMB
NETLOGON dissectors are vulnerable to pointer handling errors.

- The LMP, KINK, MGCP, RSVP, SRVLOC, EIGRP, MEGACO, DLSw, NCP and
L2TP dissectors are vulnerable to looping problems.

- The Telnet and DHCP dissectors could abort.

- The TZSP, Bittorrent, SMB, MGCP and ISUP dissectors could cause a
segmentation fault.

- The WSP, 802.3 Slow protocols, BER, SMB Mailslot, SMB, NDPS, IAX2,
RADIUS, SMB PIPE, MRDISC and TCAP dissectors could throw assertions.

- The DICOM, NDPS and ICEP dissectors are vulnerable to memory
handling errors.

- The GSM MAP, AIM, Fibre Channel,SRVLOC, NDPS, LDAP and NTLMSSP
dissectors could terminate abnormallly.

Updated Packages

Mandrakelinux 10.1

 ae2866749c7a3ceebbd6550ef5a29154  10.1/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
7a27b1b13fd7b9232f078f3c803863c8  10.1/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
b32725663f41c817169c650c04dff15e  10.1/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
f995c192659c93c5a77d12ff0dfb74e3  10.1/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
0d2e9e9478b964b9de67e10dab5996d7  10.1/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64

 a6fdb42381866c6c2df04732a0e2e2f0  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
285be2e4fff2cec54772d08daf994c0f  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
a672830433d1bd9c044d081116311406  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
da5bb65a0ac86ad8510c9c82c6c3c798  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
0d2e9e9478b964b9de67e10dab5996d7  x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux LE2005

 f6d236307d9366150aa2cf900b77ad4b  10.2/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
e146cf60690d907aaeb569f59cde8e37  10.2/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
a6ee5615d66e5b33ffe05270069fa921  10.2/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
fa4398c9e4947faff78750b289ee922c  10.2/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
0b13985c69b63df65775240b8991c07e  10.2/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux LE2005/X86_64

 7c9dc07574f92df6e3920da6c1320cfb  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
5684d61528aa353ee5ce58d8c99317f9  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
ce979043e16801b2b4565fb2dae4e18f  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
1e5af06f5eb143a956fd3a0ee88109e0  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
0b13985c69b63df65775240b8991c07e  x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.11-0.1.102mdk.src.rpm

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