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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-01 Moderate: OpenSSL Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2008
Scroller Gentoo Esm H88
Various vulnerabilities in Wireshark can be leveraged by malicious actors to initiate denial-of-service attacks, necessitating urgent patches for affected users.
Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200805-05
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Wireshark: Denial of Service
      Date: May 07, 2008
      Bugs: #215276
        ID: 200805-05


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       < 1.0.0                     >= 1.0.0

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Errors exist in:

* the X.509sat dissector because of an uninitialized variable and the
  Roofnet dissector because a NULL pointer may be passed to the
  g_vsnprin...
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security advisory Gentoo software update DoS OpenSSL network analyzer Wireshark

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