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Gentoo: GLSA-200508-10 High: Kismet Arbitrary Code Threat

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2005
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Kismet on Gentoo exhibits significant security flaws, enabling execution of arbitrary code. It is crucial to update to mitigate these vulnerabilities!
Kismet is vulnerable to multiple issues potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200508-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Kismet: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: August 19, 2005 Bugs: #102702 ID: 200508-10

Synopsis ======= Kismet is vulnerable to multiple issues potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Kismet is an 802.11 Layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-wireless/kismet < 2005.08.1 >= 2005.08.1
========== Kismet is vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling pcap captures and to an integer underflow in the CDP protocol dissector.
Impact ===== With a spe...

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