Gentoo: 200403-07 High: Ethereal Remote Overflows and Threats
gentoo
March 29, 2004
Mulitple overflows and vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal which may allow an attacker to crash the program or run arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200403-07
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Multiple remote overflows and vulnerabilities in Ethereal
Date: March 28, 2004
Bugs: #45543
ID: 200403-07
Synopsis
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Mulitple overflows and vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal which may
allow an attacker to crash the program or run arbitrary code.
Background
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Quote from https://www.afternic.com/forsale/ethereal.com
"Ethereal is used by network professionals around the world for
troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and
education. It has all of the standard features you would expect in a
protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product.
Its open source license allows talented experts in the networking
community to add enhancements. It runs on all popular computing
platforms, including Unix, Linux, and Windows."
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