Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities In Versions Prior To 0.10.13

BID:15148

Info

Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities In Versions Prior To 0.10.13

Bugtraq ID: 15148
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2005-3241
CVE-2005-3242
CVE-2005-3243
CVE-2005-3244
CVE-2005-3246
CVE-2005-3245
CVE-2005-3247
CVE-2005-3248
CVE-2005-3249
CVE-2005-3184
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 19 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 19 2015 08:20AM
Credit: iDEFENSE reported the SRVLOC dissector issue (CAN-2005-3184). The vendor disclosed the other issues.
Vulnerable: SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
+ Linux kernel 2.4.21
+ Linux kernel 2.4.19
SGI ProPack 3.0 SP6
S.u.S.E. SuSE Linux Standard Server 8.0
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 10.0 OSS
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 10.0
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 Personal 10.0 OSS
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 Desktop 1.0
RedHat Linux 9.0 i386
RedHat Linux 7.3 i686
RedHat Linux 7.3 i386
RedHat Linux 7.3
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 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
Red Hat Fedora Core4
Red Hat Fedora Core3
Red Hat Fedora Core2
Red Hat Fedora Core1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 IA64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2006.0 x86_64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2006.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.2 x86_64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.2
Gentoo Linux
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.12
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
+ Red Hat Fedora Core2
 + Red Hat 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
+ Red Hat Fedora Core1
 Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.12
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.11
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.10
+ Conectiva Linux 9.0
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
+ Conectiva Linux 8.0
+ Conectiva Linux 7.0
+ Conectiva Linux 6.0
+ 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
Debian Linux 3.1
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 0.10.13

Discussion

Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities In Versions Prior To 0.10.13

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

These issues include:
- Buffer-overflow vulnerabilities
- Null-pointer dereference denial-of-service vulnerabilities
- Infinite loop denial-of-service vulnerabilities
- Memory exhaustion denial-of-service vulnerabilities
- Division by zero denial-of-service vulnerabilities
- Invalid pointer free() attempt 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 different versions of Ethereal, from 0.7.7 through to 0.10.12.

Exploit / POC

Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities In Versions Prior To 0.10.13

A denial-of-service exploit (ethereal_slimp3_bof.py) for the issue affecting the SLIMP3 protocol dissector (CAN-2005-3243) has been provided by Sowhat.

Solution / Fix

Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities In Versions Prior To 0.10.13

Solution:
The vendor has released an advisory along with version 0.10.13 of Ethereal 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 0.8.18

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

References

Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities In Versions Prior To 0.10.13

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