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Gentoo: GLSA-200503-16 High Severity: Ethereal Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2005
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Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal, which may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code or crash the program.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: March 12, 2005 Bugs: #84547 ID: 200503-16

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal, which may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code or crash the program.
Background ========= Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.10.10 >= 0.10.10
========== There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.10, including:
* The Etheric and 3GPP2 A11 dissectors are vulnerable to buffer overflows (CAN-2005-07...

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