PT-2006-2917 · Ethereal · Ethereal

Gerald Combs · Published 2006-04-25 · Updated 2024-02-14 · CVE-2006-1933

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 0.10.x up to 0.10.14

Description The issue involves multiple unspecified vulnerabilities that allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service through crafted packets to the (1) UMA and (2) BER dissectors, potentially leading to large or infinite loops.

Recommendations For Ethereal versions 0.10.x up to 0.10.14, consider disabling the UMA and BER dissectors as a temporary workaround to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-1933

DSA-1049-1

RHSA-2006:0420

Affected Products

Ethereal

References · 26

• http://ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00023.html · Patch
• http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00195.html · Vendor Advisory
• ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060501-01-U.asc · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1933 · Security Note
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-17.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:077 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0420.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1049 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00194.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19828 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/17682 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10841 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015985 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19839 · Note