PT-2006-2922 · Ethereal · Ethereal

Gerald Combs · Published 2006-04-25 · Updated 2024-02-14 · CVE-2006-1938

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.x through 0.10.14

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash due to a null dereference. This can be achieved via the Sniffer capture or the SMB PIPE dissector.

Recommendations For versions 0.8.x through 0.10.14, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent remote attackers from causing a denial of service.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-1938

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
• 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
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1938 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19828 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/17682 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26023 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9850 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015985 · Note