Ethereal ISIS Dissector Memory Corruption Vulnerability

BID:5573

Info

Ethereal ISIS Dissector Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5573
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 20 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 20 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Published in Ethereal advisory enpa-sa-00006.
Vulnerable: 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 0.8.18
- Redhat Linux 7.2 ia64
- Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.2
Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8
+ 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
+ Debian Linux 2.2
Not Vulnerable: Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.6
+ Conectiva Linux Enterprise Edition 1.0

Exploit / POC

Ethereal ISIS Dissector Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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

Solution / Fix

Ethereal ISIS Dissector Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Solution:
FreeBSD has released an updated version of ports which contains version 0.9.6 of Ethereal. The new version of ports may be downloaded from a ports mirror, and the fixed version of Ethereal installed from source. See referenced advisory for more information.

Gentoo Linux advises users running ethereal to update their systems with the following commands:

emerge rsync
emerge ethereal
emerge clean

This issue has been addressed in Ethereal 0.9.6. Those affected by this vulnerability are advised to upgrade.

Debian has released fixes (see advisory DSA-162-1, http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4451).


Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.8

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.1

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.2

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.3

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.4

Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.9.5

References

Ethereal ISIS Dissector Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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