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Gentoo GLSA-200412-15 High: Ethereal DoS And Code Execution Risks

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2004
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Investigate Gentoo GLSA 200412-15 regarding Ethereal's security flaws and the critical risks involved. Ensure your safety by adhering to the recommended update procedures.
Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal, which may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code, crash the program or perform DoS by CPU and disk utilization

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-15 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: December 19, 2004 Bugs: #74443 ID: 200412-15

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal, which may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code, crash the program or perform DoS by CPU and disk utilization.
Background ========= Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.10.8 >= 0.10.8
========== There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.8, including:
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