Vulnerability Note VU#792286

Ethereal fails to properly handle a zero-length Presentation protocol selector

Overview

Ethereal fails to properly handle a zero-length Presentation protocol selector, which could cause Ethereal to crash.

I. Description

Ethereal is a network traffic analysis package. There is a vulnerability in the way Ethereal processes a zero-length Presentation protocol selector. Exploitation of this vulnerability could cause Ethereal to crash.

II. Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could cause Ethereal to crash.

III. Solution

Upgrade

Upgrade to version 0.10.3 or later.

Note: Ethereal is considered BETA software at this time.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Ethereal	Vulnerable	24-Mar-2004

References

http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00013.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/11185/

Credit

This vulnerability was reported by the developers of Ethereal.

This document was written by Damon Morda.

Other Information

Date Public:	2004-03-22
Date First Published:	2004-03-24
Date Last Updated:	2004-04-05
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):
NVD-ID(s):
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	2.21
Document Revision:	12

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