Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-3369 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Etherape

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
juan-toledo
nessus

Summary

The add_conversation function in conversations.c in EtherApe before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an RPC packet, related to the get_rpc function in decode_proto.c. Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Juan_Toledo
92

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_3_ETHERAPE-111021.NASL
    descriptionEtherape was updated to 0.9.12 to fix a security issue (CVE-2011-3369) and various bugs.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id75477
    published2014-06-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75477
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : etherape (openSUSE-SU-2011:1176-1)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from openSUSE Security Update etherape-5318.
    #
    # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(75477);
      script_version("1.5");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:41");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2011-3369");
    
      script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : etherape (openSUSE-SU-2011:1176-1)");
      script_summary(english:"Check for the etherape-5318 patch");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Etherape was updated to 0.9.12 to fix a security issue (CVE-2011-3369)
    and various bugs."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719086"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00029.html"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected etherape package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:etherape");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.3");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/10/21");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/06/13");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
    if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
    if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.3", release);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"etherape-0.9.12-2.3.1") ) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "etherape");
    }
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_4_ETHERAPE-111021.NASL
    descriptionEtherape was updated to 0.9.12 to fix a security issue (CVE-2011-3369) and various bugs.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id75824
    published2014-06-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75824
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : etherape (openSUSE-SU-2011:1176-1)