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Bug 145483

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 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	ethereal	Assignee:	Radek Vokál <rvokal>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	security-response-team
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-18 21:30:38 UTC

*** This bug has been split off bug 145481 ***

------- Original comment by Josh Bressers (Security Response Team) on 2005.01.18
16:16 -------

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 Radek Vokál 2005-01-25 13:18:05 UTC

Package updated to ethereal-0.10.9

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-15 09:49:49 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-2005-037.html