Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

BID:14399

Info

Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 14399
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2005-2360
CVE-2005-2361
CVE-2005-2362
CVE-2005-2363
CVE-2005-2364
CVE-2005-2365
CVE-2005-2366
CVE-2005-2367
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 27 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 01 2006 05:06PM
Credit: The vendor discovered multiple vulnerabilities. Steve Grubb from Red Hat, and iDEFENSE are credited with the discovery of multiple vulnerabilities as well. vade79 (http://fakehalo.us) is credited with the discovery of the AFP protocol dissector format stri
Vulnerable: SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
+ Linux kernel 2.4.21
+ Linux kernel 2.4.19
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 7
+ Linux kernel 2.4.19
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
SGI ProPack 3.0 SP6
S.u.S.E. SuSE Linux School Server for i386
S.u.S.E. SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8.0
S.u.S.E. SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4.0
S.u.S.E. Open-Enterprise-Server 9.0
S.u.S.E. Novell Linux Desktop 9.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.3 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.3
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.2 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.2
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.1 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.1
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.0 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 8.2
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 8.2
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 7.3
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.3 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.3
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2
S.u.S.E. Linux Enterprise Server for S/390 9.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Enterprise Server for S/390
Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
Redhat Linux 7.3 i686
Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
Redhat Linux 7.3
Redhat Fedora Core4
Redhat Fedora Core3
Redhat Fedora Core2
Redhat Fedora Core1
Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 4
Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 IA64
Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 4
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 IA64
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 4
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 IA64
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Redhat Desktop 4.0
Redhat Desktop 3.0
Redhat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1 IA64
Redhat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.11
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.9
+ Gentoo Linux
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.8
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.7
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.6
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1 x86_64
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.5
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 .10
+ Debian Linux 3.1 sparc
+ Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
+ Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
+ Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
+ Debian Linux 3.1 mips
+ Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
+ Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
+ Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
+ Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
+ Debian Linux 3.1 arm
+ Debian Linux 3.1 amd64
+ Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
+ Debian Linux 3.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.2 x86_64
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1 x86_64
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 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
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.7
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.6
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
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
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.14
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.13
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.5
Avaya S8710 R2.0.1
Avaya S8710 R2.0.0
Avaya S8700 R2.0.1
Avaya S8700 R2.0.0
Avaya S8500 R2.0.1
Avaya S8500 R2.0.0
Avaya S8300 R2.0.1
Avaya S8300 R2.0.0
Avaya Converged Communications Server 2.0
Not Vulnerable: Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.12

Discussion

Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

Many vulnerabilities in Ethereal have been disclosed by the vendor. The reported issues are in various protocol dissectors.

These issues include:

- Buffer-overflow vulnerabilities
- Format-string vulnerabilities
- NULL-pointer dereference denial-of-service vulnerabilities
- Infinite-loop denial-of-service vulnerabilities
- Memory-exhaustion denial-of-service vulnerabilities
- Unspecified denial-of-service vulnerabilities

These issues could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary machine code in the context of the vulnerable application. Attackers could also crash the affected application.

Various vulnerabilities affect several versions of Ethereal, from 0.8.5 through to 0.10.11.

Exploit / POC

Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

An exploit (xethereal-afp-fmt.c) for the format-string issue affecting the AFP protocol dissector (CAN-2005-2367) has been provided by vade79/v9 <[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released version 0.10.12 to address these issues.

Please see the referenced advisories for more information.


Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10 .10

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.1

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.11

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.2

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.3

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.4

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.5

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.6

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.7

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.8

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.9

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.13

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.14

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.15

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.18

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8.5

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 0.9.15

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.16

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.4

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.5

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.7

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.9

SGI ProPack 3.0 SP6

References

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