20137 : Ethereal SRVLOC Dissector Remote Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
8	501	over 6 years ago	about 1 year ago	1 times	100%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2005-10-12	2005-10-12	2005-10-12	2005-10-19	2005-11-16

Time to Patch
35 days

Keywords

enpa-sa-00021

Description

A remote overflow exists in Ethereal. The SVRLOC dissector fails to validate user-supplied data to the byte_array array resulting in a buffer overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.10.13 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Ethereal	Ethereal	0.10.0
		0.10.1
		0.10.2
		0.10.3
		0.10.4
		0.10.5
		0.10.6
		0.10.7
		0.10.8
		0.10.9
		0.10.10
		0.10.11
		0.10.12

References

Security Tracker: 1015082
Secunia Advisory ID: 17254 17286 17327 17377 17392 17480 17757
CVE ID: 2005-3184 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 20121 20122 20123 20124 20125 20126 20127 20128 20129 20130 20131 20132 20133 20134 20135 20136
Keyword: enpa-sa-00021
Other Advisory URL: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20051101-01-U.asc http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2005-Nov/0001.html
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-25.xml
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=323&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/6W0090AEKM.html
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0441.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-227.pdf
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2005:809

Tools & Filters

	20105 20118 20435

Credit

Anonymous - iDefense Labs VCP

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-10-21 | Disagree?

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