Ethereal Multiple Unspecified iSNS, SMB and SNMP Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

BID:10672

Info

Ethereal Multiple Unspecified iSNS, SMB and SNMP Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 10672
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE: CVE-2004-0633
CVE-2004-0634
CVE-2004-0635
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 07 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 06:16AM
Credit: The individual or individuals responsible for disclosure of these issues are currently unknown; these issues were disclosed in the referenced vendor announcement.
Vulnerable: SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3.0
Redhat Fedora Core2
Redhat Fedora Core1
Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 IA64
Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 IA64
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 IA64
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Redhat Desktop 3.0
Redhat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1 IA64
Redhat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1
Netwosix Netwosix Linux 1.1
Netwosix Netwosix Linux 1.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.4
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.3
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
+ Redhat Fedora Core2
 + Redhat Fedora Core1
 + S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.2
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.1
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.16
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.15
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.14
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.13
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.1 ppc
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.1
+ Redhat Fedora Core1
 Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.12
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.11
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.10
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.9
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.1 ppc
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.1
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.8
+ Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
 + Redhat Linux 8.0 i386
 + Redhat Linux 8.0
+ Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.3
+ Redhat Linux 7.2 ia64
 + Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.2
+ Terra Soft Solutions Yellow Dog Linux 3.0
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.7
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.6
+ Conectiva Linux Enterprise Edition 1.0
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.5
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.4
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.3
+ Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.3
+ Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.2 alpha
 + Redhat Linux 7.1 ia64
 + Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.1 alpha
 + Redhat Linux 7.0 sparc
 + Redhat Linux 7.0 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.0 alpha
 + Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc
 + Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
 + Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha
 Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.2
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.1
- Compaq Tru64 5.0
- Debian Linux 2.2 sparc
 - Debian Linux 2.2 powerpc
 - Debian Linux 2.2 IA-32
 - Debian Linux 2.2 arm
 - Debian Linux 2.2 alpha
 - Debian Linux 2.2 68k
 - HP HP-UX 11.0
- IBM AIX 5.1
 - Linux kernel 2.4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
 - NetBSD NetBSD 1.5
- OpenBSD OpenSSH 3.0
- SCO Unixware 7.0
- SGI IRIX 6.0
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
 Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.19
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.18
- Redhat Linux 7.2 ia64
 - Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
 - Redhat Linux 7.2
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.15
Not Vulnerable: Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.5

Discussion

Ethereal Multiple Unspecified iSNS, SMB and SNMP Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

Ethereal 0.10.5 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities, including an iSNS protocol dissector vulnerability, a SMB protocol dissector vulnerability, and a SNMP protocol dissector vulnerability. These issues are due to a failure of the application to properly handle malformed packets.

Successful exploitation of these issues will allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition in the affected application, it has also been reported that these issues may facilitate arbitrary code execution.

Exploit / POC

Ethereal Multiple Unspecified iSNS, SMB and SNMP Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

The following exploit has been made available by Remi Denis-Courmont <[email protected]>. It is designed to trigger a denial of service condition in the affected software:

Solution / Fix

Ethereal Multiple Unspecified iSNS, SMB and SNMP Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Conectiva has released advisory CLA-2005:916 along with fixes dealing with these and other issues. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

RedHat has released an updated advisory RHSA-2004:378-09 and fixes to address this issue on Red Hat Linux Enterprise platforms. Customers who are affected by this issue are advised to apply the appropriate updates. Customers subscribed to the Red Hat Network may apply the appropriate fixes using the Red Hat Update Agent (up2date). Please see referenced advisory for additional information.

Gentoo Linux has released advisory GLSA 200407-08 dealing with this issue. Gentoo users are advised to take the following steps to upgrade their vulnerable packages:
emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.5"
emerge ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.5"

Please see the referenced Gentoo advisory for more information.

Mandrake has released an advisory (MDKSA-2004:067) and fixes to address this issue, please see the referenced advisory for further details regarding obtaining and applying appropriate fixes.

Redhat has released an advisory (FEDORA-2004-220) and fixes addressing this issue for Fedora Core 2. Please see the referenced advisory for further details regarding obtaining and applying appropriate fixes.

Redhat has released an advisory (FEDORA-2004-219) and fixes addressing this issue for Fedora Core 1. Please see the referenced advisory for further details regarding obtaining and applying appropriate fixes.

Debian has released a security advisory (DSA 528-1) to address this issue. Please see the attached advisory for details on obtaining and applying fixes.

Netwosix Linux Security has released advisory LNSA-#2004-0016 to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for further information. Users of affected packages are urged to execute the following commands with superuser privileges:
cd /usr/ports/graphics/ethereal
rm nepote
wget http://download.netwosix.org/0016/nepote
sh nepote

The vendor has released security advisory enpa-sa-00015 as well as an upgrade dealing with this issue.

SGI has made available Patch 10095, correcting this vulnerability for systems running SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3:

Patch 10095 is available from http://support.sgi.com/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/ProPack/3/

The individual RPMs from Patch 10095 are available from:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/3/updates/RPMS
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/3/updates/SRPMS

RedHat has released a Fedora legacy advisory (FLSA:1840) to address various issues in Ethereal. This advisory fixes these issues in Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 9 running on the i386 architecture. Please see the referenced advisory for more details and information about obtaining fixes.


Redhat Fedora Core2

Redhat Fedora Core1

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.1

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.2

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.3

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.4

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.15

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.18

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.19

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.1

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.10

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.11

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.12

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.13

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.14

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.15

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.16

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.2

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.3

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.4

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.5

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.6

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.7

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.8

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.9

References

Ethereal Multiple Unspecified iSNS, SMB and SNMP Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

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