Gentoo: 200906-05 High: Wireshark Denial Of Service & Remote Code Risks
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June 30, 2009
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark which allow for Denial of Service (application crash) or remote code execution.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200906-05
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: June 30, 2009
Bugs: #242996, #248425, #258013, #264571, #271062
ID: 200906-05
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark which allow
for Denial of Service (application crash) or remote code execution.
Background
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Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer.
Affected packages
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1 net-analyzer/wireshark < 1.0.8 >= 1.0.8
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark:
* David Maciejak discovered a vulnerability in packet-usb.c in...
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