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Gentoo: GLSA-200708-12 Normal: Wireshark Remote Code Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2007
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Wireshark contains severe vulnerabilities that could enable remote code execution and denial-of-service attacks; updating is essential to protect Gentoo environments.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200708-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: August 16, 2007 Bugs: #183520 ID: 200708-12

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/wireshark < 0.99.6 >= 0.99.6
========== Wireshark doesn't properly handle chunked encoding in HTTP responses (CVE-2007-3389), iSeries capture files (CVE-2007-3390), certain types ...

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