wireshark
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- Author: Miklos Vajna
- Vulnerable: 1.0.5-1solaria1
- Unaffected: 1.0.6-1solaria1
A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing of NetScreen Snoop capture files and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code depending on the allocation of stack variables.
- Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/3613