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Bug 79490

Summary:	Ethereal security issues
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	ethereal	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
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Description Mark J. Cox 2002-12-12 11:54:48 UTC

The BGP dissector in Ethereal 0.9.7 and earlier versions can
go into an infinite loop when trying to process a malformed
message. This problem was discovered by Silvio Cesare.
Malformed packets could cause crashes in the LMP, PPP, and TDS
dissectors in 0.9.7 and earlier versions."

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2003-01-29 15:35:48 UTC

An errata 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-2002-291.html