Gentoo: GLSA-200510-25 High: Ethereal Code Execution Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-25 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors Date: October 30, 2005 Bugs: #109348 ID: 200510-25

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 < 0.10.13-r1 >= 0.10.13-r1
========== There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.13, including:
* The SLIM3 and AgentX dissectors could overflow ...