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Severity: Normal
Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: November 11, 2020
Bugs: #750692
ID: 202011-08

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark, the worst of
which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

Background
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Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer formerly known as ethereal.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-analyzer/wireshark < 3.4.0 >= 3.4.0

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

Impact
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Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge –sync
# emerge –ask –oneshot –verbose “>=net-analyzer/wireshark-3.4.0”

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2020-26575
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26575
[ 2 ] wnpa-sec-2020-14
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-14
[ 3 ] wnpa-sec-2020-15
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-15

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-08

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users’ machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2020 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons – Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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