rhsa-2002_170
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2002-09-13 14:23
Modified
2024-11-21 22:22
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: ethereal security update

Notes

Topic
Updated ethereal packages are available which fix several security problems.
Details
Ethereal is a package designed for monitoring network traffic on your system. Several security issues have been found in the Ethereal packages distributed with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server: Buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via the ISIS dissector. (CAN-2002-0834) Buffer overflows in Ethereal 0.9.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via (1) the BGP dissector, or (2) the WCP dissector. (CAN-2002-0821) Ethereal 0.9.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly excecute arbitrary code via the (1) SOCKS, (2) RSVP, (3) AFS, or (4) LMP dissectors, which can be caused to core dump (CAN-2002-0822) A buffer overflow in the X11 dissector in Ethereal before 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code while Ethereal is parsing keysyms. (CAN-2002-0402) The DNS dissector in Ethereal before 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed packet that causes Ethereal to enter an infinite loop. (CAN-2002-0403) A vulnerability in the GIOP dissector in Ethereal before 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption). (CAN-2002-0404) Users of Ethereal should update to the errata packages containing Ethereal version 0.9.6 which is not vulnerable to these issues.
Terms of Use
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          "product_ids": [
            "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 "
          ],
          "restart_required": {
            "category": "none"
          },
          "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002:170"
        }
      ],
      "threats": [
        {
          "category": "impact",
          "details": "Moderate"
        }
      ],
      "title": "security flaw"
    }
  ]
}


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