Ethereal 0.9.7 LMP/PPP/TDS Dissector memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Ethereal 0.9.7. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component LMP/PPP/TDS Dissector. The manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2002-1356. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Ethereal 0.9.7 (Packet Analyzer Software). Affected is some unknown processing of the component LMP/PPP/TDS Dissector. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Ethereal 0.9.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed packets to the (1) LMP, (2) PPP, or (3) TDS dissectors, possibly related to a missing field for EndVerifyAck messages.

The weakness was disclosed 12/23/2002 (Website). The advisory is available at redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2002-1356. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 12341 (RHEL 2.1 : ethereal (RHSA-2002:291)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (10968), Tenable (12341), SecurityFocus (BID 6567†), OSVDB (6918†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-15102†). The entry VDB-19241 is pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 12341
Nessus Name: RHEL 2.1 : ethereal (RHSA-2002:291)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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12/08/2002 🔍
12/23/2002 +15 days 🔍
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02/05/2003 +44 days 🔍
07/06/2004 +517 days 🔍
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07/31/2014 +2634 days 🔍
07/19/2019 +1814 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: redhat.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2002-1356 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-1356
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-19242
X-Force: 10968
SecurityFocus: 6567 - Ethereal LMP Dissector Malformed Packet Memory Corruption Vulnerability
OSVDB: 6918 - Ethereal PPP Dissector Malformed Packet DoS
Vulnerability Center: 15102 - Ethereal 0.9.7 LMP, PPP, and TDS Dissectors Vulnerabilities Allow Remote DoS and Code Execution, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/31/2014 17:18
Updated: 07/19/2019 09:16
Changes: 07/31/2014 17:18 (66), 07/19/2019 09:16 (5)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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