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Gentoo: GLSA-200512-06 High: Ethereal OSPF Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2005
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Transcendental exhibits a critical vulnerability related to buffer overflow in the OSPF parser. It is recommended to execute an upgrade for enhanced security.
Ethereal is missing bounds checking in the OSPF protocol dissector that could lead to abnormal program termination or the execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200512-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Ethereal: Buffer overflow in OSPF protocol dissector Date: December 14, 2005 Bugs: #115030 ID: 200512-06

Synopsis ======= Ethereal is missing bounds checking in the OSPF protocol dissector that could lead to abnormal program termination or the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. It provides protocol analyzers for various network flows, including one for Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Interior Gateway Protocol.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.10.13-r2 >= 0.10.13-r2
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