Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New ethereal packages fix arbitrary code execution |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-258 | First vendor Publication | 2003-03-10 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2003-03-10 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Georgi Guninski discovered a problem in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. The program contains a format string vulnerability that could probably lead to execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody3. For the old stable distribution (potato) does not seem to be affected by this problem. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.9-2. We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-258 |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:54 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:54 | ||
| Title: | Ethereal SOCKS String Format Vulnerability | ||
| Description: | Format string vulnerability in packet-socks.c of the SOCKS dissector for Ethereal 0.8.7 through 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via SOCKS packets containing format string specifiers. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
| Reference(s): | CVE-2003-0081 | Version: | 2 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Linux 9 | Product(s): | Ethereal |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 258-1 (ethereal) File : nvt/deb_258_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 4466 | Ethereal SOCKS Dissector Format String Overflow |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-258.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-31 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2003-051.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-25 | Name : The remote host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch File : suse_SA_2003_019.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-06 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2003-077.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:31:29 |
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