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Gentoo: 202203-07 Critical: Wireshark Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Risk

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Calendar Grey May 6, 2005
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Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Ethereal: Numerous vulnerabilities Date: May 06, 2005 Bugs: #90539 ID: 200505-03

Synopsis ======= Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination.
Background ========= Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.10.11 >= 0.10.11
========== There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.11, including:
* The ANSI A and DHCP dissectors are vulnerable to format string vuln...

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