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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-7703: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-7703: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/12/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the IMAP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-imap.c by calculating a line's end correctly.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-analyzer-wireshark

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