Ethereal Service Location Protocol Dissection Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:15158

Info

Ethereal Service Location Protocol Dissection Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 15158
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2005-3184
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 20 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 19 2015 09:19AM
Credit: The original discoverer of this issue wishes to remain anonymous. iDEFENSE reported this issue to the vendor.
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 .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
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 Service Location Protocol Dissection Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A remote buffer-overflow vulnerability affects Ethereal. This issue is due to the application's failure to securely copy network-derived data into sensitive process buffers. The specific issue resides in the Service Location Protocol dissector.

An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user that activated the vulnerable application. This may facilitate unauthorized access or privilege escalation.

This issue may be exploited by a single TCP packet to port 427, since Ethereal does not keep track of connection states. This allows malicious users to spoof the origin of attacks and to exploit this vulnerability when no services are actively listening on TCP port 427.

Note that this issue was originally disclosed in BID 15148 "Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities In Versions Prior To 0.10.13".

Exploit / POC

Ethereal Service Location Protocol Dissection Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

Ethereal Service Location Protocol Dissection Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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 0.10.11

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10.12

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