PT-2004-2665 · Ethereal · Ethereal

Published 2004-12-31 · Updated 2024-02-14 · CVE-2004-1761

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ethereal versions 0.8.13 through 0.10.2

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a segmentation fault, by utilizing a malformed color filter file.

Recommendations For versions 0.8.13 through 0.10.2, consider avoiding the use of color filter files until a fix is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to the color filter functionality to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-1761

RHSA-2004:136

Affected Products

Ethereal

References · 7

• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-136.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/11185 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-1761 · Security Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10013 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/695486 · Note
• http://ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00013.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15572 · Note