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[Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>]

All ethereal users should upgrade to the latest available version:
        # scribe update
        # cast -c ethereal

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Ladislav Hagara
Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
http://www.sourcemage.org/




From http://www.ethereal.com/news/item_20050726_01.html :

Ethereal 0.10.12 released - Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Our testing has turned up several more security issues:

The LDAP dissector could free static memory and crash. Versions 
affected: 0.8.5 to 0.10.11

The AgentX dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.10.10 to 0.10.11

The 802.3 dissector could go into an infinite loop. Versions affected: 
0.8.16 to 0.10.11

The PER dissector could abort. Versions affected: 0.10.5 to 0.10.11

The DHCP dissector could go into an infinite loop. Versions affected: 
0.10.7 to 0.10.11

The BER dissector could abort or loop infinitely. Version affected: 0.10.11

The MEGACO dissector could go into an infinite loop. Versions affected: 
0.9.14 to 0.10.11

The GIOP dissector could dereference a null pointer. Versions affected: 
0.8.20 to 0.10.11

The SMB dissector was susceptible to a buffer overflow. Versions 
affected: 0.9.12 to 0.10.11

The WBXML could dereference a null pointer. Versions affected: 0.10.1 to 
0.10.11

The H1 dissector could go into an infinite loop. Versions affected: 
0.8.15 to 0.10.11

The DOCSIS dissector could cause a crash. Versions affected: 0.9.13 to 
0.10.11

The SMPP dissector could go into an infinite loop. Versions affected: 
0.10.1 to 0.10.11

SCTP graphs could crash. Version affected: 0.10.11

The HTTP dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.10.4 to 0.10.11

The SMB dissector could go into a large loop. Versions affected: 0.9.0 
to 0.10.11

The DCERPC dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.9.16 to 0.10.11.

Several dissectors could crash while reassembling packets. Versions 
affected: 0.9.0 to 0.10.11

Steve Grubb at Red Hat found the following issues:

The CAMEL dissector could dereference a null pointer. Version affected: 
0.10.11

The DHCP dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.10.4 to 0.10.11

The CAMEL dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.10.10 to 0.10.11

The PER dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.10.10 to 0.10.11

The RADIUS dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.9.4 to 0.10.11

The Telnet dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.9.10 to 0.10.11

The IS-IS LSP dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.8.19 to 0.10.11

The NCP dissector could crash. Versions affected: 0.9.15 to 0.10.11

iDEFENSE found the following issues:

Several dissectors were susceptible to a format string overflow. 
Versions affected: 0.9.4 to 0.10.11

Ethereal uses the zlib compression library. Security vulnerabilities 
have been discovered in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2. The Windows installer now 
ships with zlib 1.2.3, which fixes these vulnerabilities.

Please see the application advisory for more details.

Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.