TITLE:
Ethereal GTP Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18229

VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/18229/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Ethereal 0.x
https://secunia.com/product/1228/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Ethereal, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an infinite loop error in the GTP
protocol dissector. This may be exploited to cause Ethereal to go
into an infinite loop, consuming all CPU resources.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 0.9.1 through
0.10.13.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.10.14.
https://www.ethereal.com/download.html

Note: The OSPF and IRC dissector vulnerabilities are also fixed in
this version.

For more information:
SA17973
SA17370

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00022.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17973:
https://secunia.com/advisories/17973/

SA17370:
https://secunia.com/advisories/17370/

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