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ethereal -- Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

Description:

Secunia reports:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Ethereal, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to various types of errors including boundary errors, an off-by-one error, an infinite loop error, and several unspecified errors in a multitude of protocol dissectors.

Successful exploitation causes Ethereal to stop responding, consume a large amount of system resources, crash, or execute arbitrary code.

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portaudit: ethereal -- Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>