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Bug 150705

Summary:	CAN-2005-0699 Multiple ethereal issues (CAN-2005-0704 CAN-2005-0705)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	ethereal	Assignee:	Radek Vokál <rvokal>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	rvokal, security-response-team
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=moderate,public=20050310,source=vendorsec,reported=20050308
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Last Closed:	2005-03-18 09:19:43 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	151035

Description Josh Bressers 2005-03-09 20:27:32 UTC

Ethereal 0.10.10 is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March 10.
It addresses the following security issues:

The Etheric dissector was susceptible to a buffer overflow.
Versions affected: 0.10.7 to 0.10.9
Fixed in revision: 13176

The GPRS-LLC dissector could crash if the "ignore cipher bit" option
was enabled.
Versions affected: 0.10.7 to 0.10.9
Fixed in revisions: 13386 (further improvements in 13549 and 13571)

The 3GPP2 A11 dissector was susceptible to a buffer overflow.
Versions affected: 0.10.3 to 0.10.9
Fixed in revision: 13574
CAN-2005-0699

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-03-09 20:33:04 UTC

Radek, this is a heads up.  I imagine we'll upgrade as before?

Additionally, RHEL2.1 and RHEL3 are affected.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-03-09 22:00:54 UTC

The Etheric dissector was susceptible to a buffer overflow.
CAN-2005-0704

The GPRS-LLC dissector could crash if the "ignore cipher bit" option
CAN-2005-0705

The 3GPP2 A11 dissector was susceptible to a buffer overflow.
CAN-2005-0699

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-03-11 21:15:16 UTC

Ethereal 0.10.10 has been released
http://www.ethereal.com/news/item_20050311_01.html

Comment 4 Radek Vokál 2005-03-14 08:01:26 UTC

RHSA-2005:306-02 created for EL4. Others are comming ..

Comment 5 Radek Vokál 2005-03-14 12:02:57 UTC

*** Bug 151035 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Mark J. Cox 2005-03-18 09:19:43 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-2005-306.html