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Gentoo: GLSA-200808-04 Advisory: Wireshark Denial of Service Risks

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
In today's digital age, DoS attacks threaten networks significantly. Admins can identify patterns using Wireshark, helping to analyze traffic anomalies for protection against these threats.
Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200808-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Wireshark: Denial of Service Date: August 06, 2008 Bugs: #230411, #231587 ID: 200808-04

Synopsis ======= Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark.
Background ========= Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/wireshark < 1.0.2 >= 1.0.2
========== Multiple vulnerabilities related to memory management were discovered in the GSM SMS dissector (CVE-2008-3137), the PANA and KISMET dissectors (CVE-2008-3138), the RTMPT dissector (CVE-2008-3139),...

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