Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200311-05.
Solution
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-analyzer/ethereal 0.9.x upgrade:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv '>=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.9.16'
# emerge '>=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.9.16'
# emerge clean
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200311-05 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32691
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00011.html
Insight
Ethereal is vulnerable to heap and buffer overflows in the GTP, ISAKMP, MEGACO, and SOCKS protocol dissectors.
