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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-27
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: July 28, 2005
Bugs: #100316
ID: 200507-27
Synopsis
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Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities potentially
resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or abnormal termination.
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 < 0.10.12 >= 0.10.12
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There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to
0.10.12, including:
* The SMB dissector could overflow a buffer or exhaust memory
(CAN-...
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