Package name ethereal
Date August 4th, 2005
Advisory ID MDKSA-2005:131
Affected versions 10.1, 10.2

Problem Description

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in versions of Ethereal
prior to version 0.10.12, including:

The SMB dissector could overflow a buffer or exhaust memory
(CAN-2005-2365).

iDefense discovered that several dissectors are vulnerable to
format string overflows (CAN-2005-2367).

A number of other portential crash issues in various dissectors
have also been corrected.

This update provides Ethereal 0.10.12 which is not vulnerable to these
issues.

Updated Packages

Mandrakelinux 10.1

 f6931a74612db92aa0d4615960214854  10.1/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
f8e815399aa508bf8d1fe03e19e3e8ef  10.1/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.12-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
00383dd9ea00d5cde9b64d0d6f03efb0  10.1/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.12-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
9bcdac91996cbbb02368c220b86de184  10.1/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.12-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
feacd9f7018da58e7ff3110c2c3a96f3  10.1/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-0.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64

 f17ca7252e3face05e6228848385b203  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
9b13e9b5b6320ea4eb9a83322f1a098f  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.12-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
d1d7606243229d77ab94632493ab5c12  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.12-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
cf99953e73c3fb87fdca96fbb01e8897  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.12-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
feacd9f7018da58e7ff3110c2c3a96f3  x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-0.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux LE2005

 5397caa26eaaa2760d6cf2b7f88da399  10.2/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
7c8b866673c056603666296737e1938f  10.2/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.12-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
6de8272b6bd220ef4acd91dd7f09620b  10.2/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.12-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
b2a94687155df4359cc7b480d4a49e64  10.2/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.12-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
6af1afa58f0effe14bf02adbb3b3620a  10.2/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-0.1.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux LE2005/X86_64

 ffcfdc52a177e3cdc38457f9cda8ae6f  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
1d4d5bc3bdb9412d5224bd54ba161ad3  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.12-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
cf7a1d7610c4443d1d2d1f2859bda528  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.12-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
34d6fc3ecd5481dcdb8e1746c74d696f  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.12-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
6af1afa58f0effe14bf02adbb3b3620a  x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-0.1.102mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2360
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2361
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2362
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2363
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2364
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2365
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2366
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2367
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00020.html

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