Ethereal up to 0.10.14 Printing off-by-one

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Ethereal. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Printing. Such manipulation leads to off-by-one. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2006-1932. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Ethereal (Packet Analyzer Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Printing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a off-by-one vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-193. A product calculates or uses an incorrect maximum or minimum value that is 1 more, or 1 less, than the correct value. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Off-by-one error in the OID printing routine in Ethereal 0.10.x up to 0.10.14 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.

The bug was discovered 04/24/2006. The weakness was presented 04/25/2006 with Coverity (Website). The advisory is available at ethereal.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-1932 since 04/20/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21364 (RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 : ethereal (RHSA-2006:0420)), 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. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117708 (CentOS Security Update for Ethereal (CESA-2006:0420)).

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (26012), Tenable (21364), SecurityFocus (BID 17682†), OSVDB (24930†) and Secunia (SA19769†). See VDB-29866, VDB-29865, VDB-29864 and VDB-29863 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 10.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.0

VulDB Base Score: 10.0
VulDB Temp Score: 9.0
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Class: Off-by-one
CWE: CWE-193 / CWE-189
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 21364
Nessus Name: RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 : ethereal (RHSA-2006:0420)
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OpenVAS ID: 56670
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1049-1 (ethereal)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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06/17/2019 +1558 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: ethereal.com
Organization: Coverity
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-1932 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1932
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29858

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X-Force: 26012
SecurityFocus: 17682 - Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities In Versions Prior To 0.99.0
Secunia: 19769 - Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 24930 - CVE-2006-1932 - Ethereal - Unspecified Issue
SecurityTracker: 1015985
Vulnerability Center: 11291 - Ethereal 0.10 - 0.10.14 Off-by-one Error, Critical
Vupen: ADV-2006-1501

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/17/2019 09:52
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (78), 06/17/2019 09:52 (14)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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