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Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis Ethereal vulnerable to buffer overflows Advisory ID RHSA-2000:116-05 Issue Date 2000-11-27 Updated On 2000-11-29 Product Red Hat Powertools Keywords Ethereal buffer Cross References N/A 1. Topic: Updated Ethereal packages are available. 2. Problem description: Versions of Ethereal prior to 0.8.14 are vulnerable to buffer overflows. The ethereal-0.8.14 packages correct this problem. 3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information) N/A - 4. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Powertools 6.0 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Powertools 7.0 - i386, alpha 5. RPMs required: Red Hat Powertools 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2: alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/en/os/alpha/ethereal-0.8.14-1.alpha.rpm sparc: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/en/os/sparc/ethereal-0.8.14-1.sparc.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/en/os/i386/ethereal-0.8.14-1.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/en/os/SRPMS/ethereal-0.8.14-1.src.rpm Red Hat Powertools 7.0: alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/en/os/alpha/ethereal-0.8.14-3.alpha.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/en/os/i386/ethereal-0.8.14-3.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/en/os/SRPMS/ethereal-0.8.14-3.src.rpm 6. Solution: For each RPM for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Fvh [filename] where filename is the name of the RPM. 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13eed73d9caab98a03ead9a13380075e 6.2/en/os/SRPMS/ethereal-0.8.14-1.src.rpm 1d5f8aa293442f13f48daff591bbcfa0 6.2/en/os/alpha/ethereal-0.8.14-1.alpha.rpm 6bd72ad178e8f8f5aa6697c35393ab77 6.2/en/os/i386/ethereal-0.8.14-1.i386.rpm 23b04d12995a9ef68316bde5c9cb4c69 6.2/en/os/sparc/ethereal-0.8.14-1.sparc.rpm e13a586b0940e99e1be569df799cfca7 7.0/en/os/SRPMS/ethereal-0.8.14-3.src.rpm f66c8f700e762f1fcd03659f0e27626a 7.0/en/os/alpha/ethereal-0.8.14-3.alpha.rpm fd164d3509dde25d21fd7cb926ba0e65 7.0/en/os/i386/ethereal-0.8.14-3.i386.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/about/contact.html You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig filename If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg filename Note that you need RPM >= 3.0 to check GnuPG keys. 8. References: http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/vdb/bottom.html%3Fvid%3D1972