Summary
The remote host is missing an update to ethereal
announced via advisory DSA 528-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20528-1
Insight
Several denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilites are described in the ethereal advisory enpa-sa-00015. Of these, only one (CVE-2004-0635) affects the version of ethereal in Debian woody. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to crash ethereal with an invalid SNMP packet.
For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody8.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.5-1.
We recommend that you update your ethereal package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2004-0635 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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