The remote host is missing an update to ethereal announced via advisory DSA 1127-1. Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Ethereal network sniffer, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2006-3628 Ilja van Sprundel discovered that the FW-1 and MQ dissectors are vulnerable to format string attacks. CVE-2006-3629 Ilja van Sprundel discovered that the MOUNT dissector is vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion. CVE-2006-3630 Ilja van Sprundel discovered off-by-one overflows in the NCP NMAS and NDPS dissectors. CVE-2006-3631 Ilja van Sprundel discovered a buffer overflow in the NFS dissector. CVE-2006-3632 Ilja van Sprundel discovered that the SSH dissector is vulnerable to denial of service through an infinite loop.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.10-2sarge6. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.2-1 of wireshark, the sniffer formerly known as ethereal. We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201127-1