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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2303
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3137 - CVE-2008-3138 - CVE-2008-3139 - CVE-2008-3140 - CVE-2008-3141 - CVE-2008-3145
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-06

Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or disclose sensitive information. These issues are caused by errors in Wireshark. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1982 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-2057

Affected Products

net-analyzer/wireshark versions prior to 1.0.2

Solution

Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.0.2"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2303
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200808-04.xml

ChangeLog

2008-08-06 : Initial release

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