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Gentoo: GLSA-200803-32 Normal: Wireshark Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey March 24, 2008
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Several vulnerabilities related to Denial of Service have been identified in Wireshark, necessitating an upgrade for users to safeguard against potential threats.
Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200803-32
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Wireshark: Denial of Service
      Date: March 24, 2008
      Bugs: #212149
        ID: 200803-32


Synopsis
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Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in
Wireshark.

Background
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Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end.

Affected packages
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     Package                 /  Vulnerable  /               Unaffected
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  1  net-analyzer/wireshark      < 0.99.8                    >= 0.99.8

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Multiple unspecified errors exist in the SCTP, SNMP, and TFTP
dissectors.

Impact
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A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service by sending a
malformed ...
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