Ethereal Q.931 Protocol Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:9249

Info

Ethereal Q.931 Protocol Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9249
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-2003-1013
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 18 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 12:56AM
Credit: The disclosure of this issue has been credited to the vendor.
Vulnerable: SGI ProPack 2.4
SGI ProPack 2.3
Redhat ethereal-gnome-0.9.8-6.i386.rpm
+ Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
 Redhat ethereal-0.9.8-6.i386.rpm
+ Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
 Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Redhat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1
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
Not Vulnerable: Ethereal Group Ethereal 0.10

Discussion

Ethereal Q.931 Protocol Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

Ethereal Q.931 protocol dissector is prone to remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability. This issue has been addressed with the release of Ethereal 0.10.0.

The issue may be exploited by causing Ethereal to process a malformed packet. Successful exploitation will cause a denial of service condition in the Ethereal application.

Ethereal versions 0.9.16 and prior have been reported to be prone to this issue. This issue has been reported to affect Tethereal as well.

Exploit / POC

Ethereal Q.931 Protocol Dissector Denial of Service 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 Q.931 Protocol Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released Ethereal 0.10.0 to address this issue.

Red Hat has released an advisory (RHSA-2004:002-02) to address this vulnerability in Red Hat enterprise products. Customers subscribed to the Red Hat Network may obtain appropriate updates using the Red Hat Update Agent "up2date". Further details can be found in the referenced advisory.

RedHat has released an advisory FEDORA-2003-040 for Fedora Core 1. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Debian has released security advisory DSA 407-1 to address this issue. See referenced advisory for additional details.

RedHat has released security advisory RHSA-2004:001-01 to address this issue. See referenced advisory for additional details.

Conectiva has released security advisory CLA-2004:801 to address this issue. See referenced advisory for additional details.

Mandrake has released advisory MDKSA-2004:002 to address this issue.

SGI has released an advisory 20040103-01-U with fixes to address this and other issues. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

SGI has released an advisory 20040202-01-U to address this and other issues in SGI ProPack 2.4. Please see the referenced advisory for more information. Fixes are available below:


Redhat ethereal-0.9.8-6.i386.rpm

Redhat ethereal-gnome-0.9.8-6.i386.rpm

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

SGI ProPack 2.3

SGI ProPack 2.4

References

Ethereal Q.931 Protocol Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

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