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

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Calendar Grey November 25, 2009
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Delve into the Gentoo GLSA 200911-05 advisory on Wireshark vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution, emphasizing the urgency of updates to protect systems
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code, or Denial of Service.

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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...

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