ethereal security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0156

Ethereal is a program for monitoring network traffic.

Two denial of service bugs were found in Ethereal’s IRC and GTP protocol
dissectors. Ethereal could crash or stop responding if it reads a malformed
IRC or GTP packet off the network. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the names CVE-2005-3313 and CVE-2005-4585
to these issues.

A buffer overflow bug was found in Ethereal’s OSPF protocol dissector.
Ethereal could crash or execute arbitrary code if it reads a malformed OSPF
packet off the network. (CVE-2005-3651)

Users of ethereal should upgrade to these updated packages containing
version 0.10.14, which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074717.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074718.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074722.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074730.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074731.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074732.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074737.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074738.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-January/074739.html

Affected packages:
ethereal
ethereal-gnome

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0156