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HistoryJun 29, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

2014-06-2900:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
18

0.953 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.3%

Background

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer formerly known as ethereal.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker can cause arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Service condition via a specially crafted packet.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Wireshark 1.8.x users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.8.15"

All Wireshark 1.10.x users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.10.8"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallnet-analyzer/wireshark< 1.10.8UNKNOWN