Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:38:28 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of ethereal released

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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
November 22, 2000
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Package        : ethereal
Problem type   : remote exploit
Debian-specific: no

hacksware reported a buffer overflow in the AFS packet parsing code in
ethereal. Gerald Combs then found more overflows in the netbios and ntp
decoding logic as well. An attacker can exploit those overflows by
sending carefully crafted packets to a network that is being monitored
by ethereal.

This has been fixed in version 0.8.0-2potato and we recommend you
upgrade your ethereal package immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.
  Packages for m68k are not available at this momemt; when they
  become available they will be announced on http://security.debian.org/

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: f82bd9c0d58077d360cc371e5cdc5de0
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 01311d5c1a0e5facf93565970dcec04b
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/ethereal_0.8.0.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 297ae32cc23a154497dad6a1f964bdb1

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 82f6fd38b2e7cab8b867ac52dae895fd

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 0a704256847208f89811650cc964644b

  Intel ia32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: e388da4ca483cf327dc784c1193d86f3

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 530905f2a5fa5a62ebad6207aec91588

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/ethereal_0.8.0-2potato_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 30a1e8df61a40ede30a005ad12d43fef

  These files will be moved into
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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