Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to ethereal announced via advisory MDKSA-2005:013.
A number of vulnerabilities were found in Ethereal, all of which are fixed in version 0.10.9: The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop (CVE-2005-0006) the DLSw dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal exit prematurely (CVE-2005-0007) the DNP dissector could cause memory corruption (CVE-2005-0008) the Gnutella dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal exit prematurely (CVE-2005-0009) the MMSE dissector could free static memory (CVE-2005-0010) and the X11 protocol dissector is vulnerable to a string buffer overflow (CVE-2005-0084).
Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1
Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2005:013 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0006 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0007 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0008 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0009 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0010 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0084 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00017.html
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score: 7.5
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