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Gentoo: GLSA-200608-26 Normal: Wireshark Denial Of Service Exploits

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Calendar Grey August 29, 2006
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Wireshark running on Gentoo is subject to various vulnerabilities leading to denial of service and potential code execution. It is recommended to update promptly.
Wireshark is vulnerable to several security issues that may lead to a Denial of Service and/or the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-26 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: August 29, 2006 Bugs: #144946 ID: 200608-26

Synopsis ======= Wireshark is vulnerable to several security issues that may lead to a Denial of Service and/or the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Wireshark is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/wireshark < 0.99.3 >= 0.99.3
========== The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Firstly, if the IPsec ESP parser is used it is susceptible to off-by-one errors, this parser is d...

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