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Gentoo: GLSA-200809-17 Normal: Wireshark Multiple DoS Threats

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A series of Denial of Service vulnerabilities identified in Wireshark has led to a significant update in Gentoo Linux Advisory 200809-17.
Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Wireshark: Multiple Denials of Service Date: September 25, 2008 Bugs: #236515 ID: 200809-17

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 < 1.0.3 >= 1.0.3
========== The following vulnerabilities were reported:
* Multiple buffer overflows in the NCP dissector (CVE-2008-3146).
* Infinite loop in the NCP dissector (CVE-2008-3932).
* Inval...

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