Bug 145481

Summary:	CAN-2005-0006 multiple ethereal issues (CAN-2005-0007 CAN-2005-0008 CAN-2005-0009 CAN-2005-0010 CAN-2005-0084)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	ethereal	Assignee:	Radek Vokál <rvokal>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	security-response-team
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OS:	Linux
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-18 21:16:47 UTC

Gerald Combs reported multiple issues in Ethereal to vendor-sec

>Ethereal 0.10.9 is scheduled to be released tomorrow (January 18).  It
>will address the following issues:
>
> The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop.
> Versions affected: 0.10.6 - 0.10.8
> Fixed in revision: 13075

CAN-2005-0006

> The DLSw dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal exit
> prematurely.
> Versions affected: 0.10.6 - 0.10.8
> Fixed in revision: 13012

CAN-2005-0007

> The DNP dissector could cause memory corruption.
> Versions affected: 0.10.5 - 0.10.8
> Fixed in revision: 13083

CAN-2005-0008

> The Gnutella dissector could cuase an assertion, making Ethereal exit
> prematurely.
> Versions affected: 0.10.6 - 0.10.8
> Fixed in revision: 13032

CAN-2005-0009

> The MMSE dissector could free statically-allocated memory.
> Versions affected: 0.10.4 - 0.10.8
> Fixed in revision: 12801

CAN-2005-0010

> The X11 dissector is vulnerable to a string buffer overflow.
> Versions affected: 0.8.10 - 0.10.8
> Fixed in revision: 13057

CAN-2005-0084

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-01-18 21:19:04 UTC

Radek,

I'm thinking we should just wait for the new ethereal version, then re-roll the
RHEL errata packages.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-01-18 21:19:44 UTC

This issue is also going to affect RHEL2.1

Comment 3 Radek Vokál 2005-01-19 08:18:36 UTC

We should ship ethereal labeled as dangerous software and only for skilled
users. Of course waiting for 0.10.9 makes sence ..

Comment 4 Radek Vokál 2005-01-25 13:42:52 UTC

Ethereal updated to version 0.10.9

Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-02 12:07:38 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-011.html