Package name ethereal Date January 3rd, 2006 Advisory ID MDKSA-2006:002 Affected versions 2006.0

Problem Description

Three vulnerabilities were discovered in Ethereal 0.10.13:

The IRC and GTP dissectors could go into an infinite loop.

A buffer overflow was discovered by iDefense in the OSPF dissector.

Ethereal has been upgraded to 0.10.14 which does not suffer from these
problems.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2006

 a055efb80c48c277b052ad733a7f8dc9  2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 acf8e4fc1f1c2d75002c8583474d4f01  2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 499b8112338d62b7b2db6ad3f0869109  2006.0/RPMS/libethereal0-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 528f458848c122e2fd42fb3116643fea  2006.0/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 44c4e7789d3e6b33ec5c4cf077557fc1  2006.0/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006/X86_64

 1a99f01c91cbf6dde19f41d1e3dd27eb  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 f628d006ff03fbd21deb47b0387a3388  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ethereal-tools-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 56cf815f56a5baa86820ed1d9e844066  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/lib64ethereal0-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 1528803d727413623fd5b3f40414f7e1  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/tethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 44c4e7789d3e6b33ec5c4cf077557fc1  x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.14-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-3651
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00022.html

Upgrade

To upgrade automatically, use MandrivaUpdate.

Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.