Gentoo: GLSA 200911-05 Normal: Wireshark Code Execution Risks

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200911-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: November 25, 2009 Bugs: #285280, #290710 ID: 200911-05

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code, or Denial of Service.
Background ========= Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/wireshark < 1.2.3 >= 1.2.3
========== Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark:
* Ryan Giobbi reported an integer overflow in wiretap/erf.c (CVE-2009-3829).
* The ve...