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Debian Security Advisory DSA 258-1 (ethereal)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to ethereal announced via advisory DSA 258-1.

Insight

Insight

Georgi Guninski discovered a problem in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. The program contains a format string vulnerability that could probably lead to execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody3. For the old stable distribution (potato) does not seem to be affected by this problem. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.9-2. We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20258-1

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