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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:42 am Post subject: [ GLSA 200512-06 ] Ethereal: Buffer overflow in OSPF protoco |
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: Ethereal: Buffer overflow in OSPF protocol dissector (GLSA 200512-06)
Severity: high
Exploitable: remote
Date: December 14, 2005
Bug(s): #115030
ID: 200512-06
Synopsis
Ethereal is missing bounds checking in the OSPF protocol dissector that could lead to abnormal program termination or the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. It provides protocol analyzers for various network flows, including one for Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Interior Gateway Protocol.
Affected Packages
Package: net-analyzer/ethereal
Vulnerable: < 0.10.13-r2
Unaffected: >= 0.10.13-r2
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
iDEFENSE reported a possible overflow due to the lack of bounds checking in the dissect_ospf_v3_address_prefix() function, part of the OSPF protocol dissector.
Impact
An attacker might be able to craft a malicious network flow that would crash Ethereal. It may be possible, though unlikely, to exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Ethereal, which could be the root user.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version: Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.13-r2" |
References
CVE-2005-3651
iDEFENSE Advisory
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