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                   Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory



Synopsis:          Ethereal vulnerable to buffer overflows

Advisory ID:       RHSA-2000:116-05

Issue date:        2000-11-27

Updated on:        2000-11-29

Product:           Red Hat Powertools

Keywords:          Ethereal buffer

Cross references:  N/A

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1. Topic:



Updated Ethereal packages are available.



2. Relevant releases/architectures:



Red Hat Powertools 6.0 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Powertools 7.0 - i386, alpha



3. Problem description:



Versions of Ethereal prior to 0.8.14 are vulnerable to buffer overflows.

The ethereal-0.8.14 packages correct this problem.



4. Solution:



For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:







rpm -Fvh [filename]







where filename is the name of the RPM.



5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info):



N/A



6. RPMs required:



Red Hat Powertools 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2:



alpha:

http://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/alpha/ethereal-0.8.14-1.alpha.rpm



sparc:

http://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/sparc/ethereal-0.8.14-1.sparc.rpm



i386:

http://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/i386/ethereal-0.8.14-1.i386.rpm



sources:

http://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/SRPMS/ethereal-0.8.14-1.src.rpm



Red Hat Powertools 7.0:



alpha:

http://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/alpha/ethereal-0.8.14-3.alpha.rpm



i386:

http://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/i386/ethereal-0.8.14-3.i386.rpm



sources:

http://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/SRPMS/ethereal-0.8.14-3.src.rpm



7. Verification:



MD5 sum                           Package Name

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13eed73d9caab98a03ead9a13380075e  6.2/SRPMS/ethereal-0.8.14-1.src.rpm

1d5f8aa293442f13f48daff591bbcfa0  6.2/alpha/ethereal-0.8.14-1.alpha.rpm

6bd72ad178e8f8f5aa6697c35393ab77  6.2/i386/ethereal-0.8.14-1.i386.rpm

23b04d12995a9ef68316bde5c9cb4c69  6.2/sparc/ethereal-0.8.14-1.sparc.rpm

e13a586b0940e99e1be569df799cfca7  7.0/SRPMS/ethereal-0.8.14-3.src.rpm

f66c8f700e762f1fcd03659f0e27626a  7.0/alpha/ethereal-0.8.14-3.alpha.rpm

fd164d3509dde25d21fd7cb926ba0e65  7.0/i386/ethereal-0.8.14-3.i386.rpm



These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security.  Our key

is available at:

    http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html



You can verify each package with the following command:

    rpm --checksig  



If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or

tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:

    rpm --checksig --nogpg 



8. References:



http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/vdb/bottom.html%3Fvid%3D1972





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