Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
A number of vulnerabilities in the Wireshark program were found that could cause crashes, excessive looping, or arbitrary code execution.
This update rovides Wireshark 0.99.7 which is not vulnerable to these issues.
An updated version of libsmi is also being provided, not because of security issues, but because this version of wireshark uses it instead of net-snmp for SNMP support.
Affected
wireshark on Mandriva Linux 2007.0,
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
-
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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