[SECURITY] Fedora Core 1 Update: ethereal-0.10.0a-0.1

[Phil Knirsch]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-040
2003-12-18
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Name        : ethereal
Version     : 0.10.0a
Release     : 0.1
Summary     : Network traffic analyzer
Description : Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish 
operating systems.

This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.

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Update Information:

  Serious issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors:

     * Selecting "Match->Selected" or "Prepare->Selected" for a

malformed SMB packet could cause a segmentation fault.
     * It is possible for the Q.931 dissector to dereference a null 
pointer when reading a malformed packet.

Impact:

Both vulnerabilities will make the Ethereal application crash. The Q.931 
vulnerability also affects Tethereal. It is not known if either 
vulnerability can be used to make Ethereal or Tethereal run arbitrary code.

Resolution:

Upgrade to 0.10.0.

If you are running a version prior to 0.10.0 and you cannot upgrade, you 
can disable the SMB and Q.931 protocol dissectors by selecting 
Edit->Protocols... and deselecting them from the list.
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* Wed Dec 17 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com&gt; 0.10.0a-0.1

- Update to latest upstream version 0.10.0a
- Fixed plugins problem.


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This update can be downloaded from:
   http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/

5ac28be19cc9b3113b6c339aed1c5f33  SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.0a-0.1.src.rpm
5e295a50ac358b0edd4828d39da04a9e  i386/ethereal-0.10.0a-0.1.i386.rpm
8b0add410bf1e84f44f1e93c91a29596  i386/ethereal-gnome-0.10.0a-0.1.i386.rpm
0cf3428ab5d3ec2fdf8b415d79b5d9db 
i386/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.0a-0.1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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