Gentoo: GLSA 200607-09 High: Wireshark Remote Execution Risk

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200607-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: July 25, 2006 Bugs: #140856 ID: 200607-09

Synopsis ======= Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal) is vulnerable to several security issues, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code by a remote attacker.
Background ========= Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, is a popular network protocol analyzer.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/wireshark < 0.99.2 >= 0.99.2 2 net-analyzer/ethereal <= 0.99.0-r1 Vulnerable! ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate to another package if one is available or wait for the existing packages to be marked stable by their architecture maintainers. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures. -------------------------------------------------------------------
========== Wireshark dissectors have been found vulnerable to a large number of exploits, inc...