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Gentoo: GLSA-200604-17 High: Ethereal Buffer Overflow Risks

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2006
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Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors Date: April 27, 2006 Bugs: #130505 ID: 200604-17

Synopsis ======= Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/ethereal < 0.99.0 >= 0.99.0
========== Coverity discovered numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.99.0, including:
* buffer overflows in the ALCAP (CVE-2006-1934), COPS (CVE-2006-19...

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