Gentoo alert 200306-13 (ethereal)

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Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
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gentoo-announce@gentoo.org
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GLSA:  ethereal (200306-13)
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Thu, 26 Jun 2003 00:36:31 +0200

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-13
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          PACKAGE : ethereal
          SUMMARY : arbitrary code execution
             DATE : 2003-06-25 22:36 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <ethereal-0.9.13
    FIXED VERSION : >=ethereal-0.9.13
              CVE : CAN-2003-0432

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from advisory: 
"It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or run arbitrary code by 
injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire, or by convincing 
someone to read a malformed packet trace file."

Read the full advisory at
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-analyzer/ethereal upgrade to ethereal as follows

emerge sync
emerge ethereal
emerge clean

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