Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. wireshark 2017-06-06 2017-06-06 609646 615462 remote 2.2.6 2.2.6

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer formerly known as ethereal.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted network packet using Wireshark, possibly resulting a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-2.2.6"

CVE-2017-6014 CVE-2017-7700 CVE-2017-7701 CVE-2017-7702 CVE-2017-7703 CVE-2017-7704 CVE-2017-7705 BlueKnight whissi