Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination.
Package | net-analyzer/ethereal on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 0.10.11 |
Unaffected versions | >= 0.10.11 |
Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer.
There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.11, including:
An attacker might be able to use these vulnerabilities to crash Ethereal and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Ethereal, which could be the root user.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.11"
Release date
May 06, 2005
Latest revision
May 06, 2005: 01
Severity
high
Exploitable
remote
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