Info

Disclosure

Jul 06, 2004

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

Ethereal contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when SMB SID snooping is used and there is no policy name for a handle, which will result in loss of availability for the service.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.10.5 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. It is also possible to correct the flaw by implementing the following workaround(s): disable SID snooping in the SMB protocol preferences.

Products

Ethereal	Ethereal	0.9.15
		0.9.16
		0.10.0
		0.10.0a
		0.10.1
		0.10.2
		0.10.3
		0.10.4

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 12024 12034 12035 12068 12237
CVE ID: 2004-0634 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 7536 7538
Other Advisory URL: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-378.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200407-08.xml
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00015.html
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:067
Vendor URL: http://www.ethereal.com/
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.netwosix.org/adv16.html

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/7537