Vulnerability in Ethereal Group
CVE-2005-0739
The IAPP dissector (packet-iapp.c) for Ethereal 0.9.1 to 0.10.9 does not properly use certain routines for formatting strings, which could leave it vulnerable to buffer overflows, as demonstrated using modified length values that are not properly handled by the dissect_pdus and pduval_to_str functions.
EPSS: 0.076 (93.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Ethereal_group Ethereal
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@debian.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- security@debian.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRAKE)
- security@debian.org (URL Repurposed, x_refsource_MISC)
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, URL Repurposed, Patch)
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
- security@debian.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- security@debian.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)