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Gentoo 200406-01 High: Ethereal Buffer Overflow Threat Detected

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Calendar Grey June 4, 2004
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Several vulnerabilities have been identified in Ethereal on Gentoo, potentially leading to system crashes or unauthorized code execution. An upgrade is advised.
Multiple vulnerabilities including one buffer overflow exist in Ethereal, which may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code or crash the program

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200406-01
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: High
     Title: Ethereal: Multiple security problems
      Date: June 04, 2004
      Bugs: #51022
        ID: 200406-01


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities including one buffer overflow exist in
Ethereal, which may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code or crash
the program.

Background
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Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer.

Affected packages
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     Package                /   Vulnerable   /              Unaffected
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  1  net-analyzer/ethereal       <= 0.10.3                   >= 0.10.4

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There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than
0.10.4, including:

* A bu...
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