Gentoo: GLSA-202112-01 Critical: Wireshark RCE & DoS Vulnerabilities

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200712-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: December 30, 2007 Bugs: #199958 ID: 200712-23

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 < 0.99.7 >= 0.99.7
========== Multiple buffer overflows and infinite loops were discovered in multiple dissector and parser components, including those for MP3 and NCP (...