The ethereal package is a program for monitoring network traffic.
A number of security flaws have been discovered in Ethereal. On a system where Ethereal is running, a remote attacker could send malicious packets to trigger these flaws and cause Ethereal to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.
A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the Etheric dissector. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0704 to this issue.
The GPRS-LLC dissector could crash if the "ignore cipher bit" option was set. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0705 to this issue.
A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the 3GPP2 A11 dissector. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0699 to this issue.
A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the IAPP dissector. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0739 to this issue.
Users of ethereal should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain version 0.10.10 and are not vulnerable to these issues.