Subject: pkg/19406: Current version of net/ethereal package has a known security issue
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <adrianp@stindustries.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/16/2002 00:31:19
>Number: 19406
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: Current version of net/ethereal package has a known security issue
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Dec 16 00:32:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Adrian Portelli
>Release: NetBSD 1.6 i386
>Organization:
STIndustries
>Environment:
NetBSD krusty.mdc.stindustries.net 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (KRUSTY) #12: Sat Dec 7 15:13:25 EST 2002 root@krusty.mdc.stindustries.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/KRUSTY i386
>Description:
The current version of net/ethereal from the packages collection is out of date and has a known security issue.
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /usr/pkgsrc/net/ethereal and the version in the Makefile is ethereal-0.9.7. The current version available from www.ethereal.com is 0.9.8. Details of the security issue are at:
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
>Fix:
Patches for update to 0.9.8
--- Makefile.orig Mon Dec 16 19:24:45 2002
+++ Makefile Mon Dec 16 19:24:54 2002
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.67 2002/12/09 17:09:00 drochner Exp $
-DISTNAME= ethereal-0.9.7
+DISTNAME= ethereal-0.9.8
CATEGORIES= net
MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/ \
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/network/monitoring/ethereal/
--- distinfo.orig Mon Dec 16 19:25:00 2002
+++ distinfo Mon Dec 16 19:28:11 2002
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.14 2002/09/30 11:50:25 martti Exp $
-SHA1 (ethereal-0.9.7.tar.gz) = 308b5dd2a90ec6d0e090ae54b1bf3cc9c69a9bf7
-Size (ethereal-0.9.7.tar.gz) = 4153241 bytes
+SHA1 (ethereal-0.9.8.tar.gz) = 57b2808e30538c7be0a175870283c6f9bdbdb434
+Size (ethereal-0.9.8.tar.gz) = 4210744 bytes
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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