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Gentoo: 200501-27 High: Ethereal Multiple Issues DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2005
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Ethereal contains several security flaws; implement updates to mitigate DoS and unauthorized code execution threats. Severity: Critical.
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

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-27 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: January 20, 2005 Bugs: #78559 ID: 200501-27

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 < 0.10.9 >= 0.10.9
========== There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.9, including:
* The COPS dissector could go into an infinite...

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