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etherape: denial of service

Package(s):etherape CVE #(s):CVE-2011-3369
Created:October 24, 2011 Updated:August 20, 2012
Description: From the CVE entry:

The add_conversation function in conversations.c in EtherApe before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an RPC packet, related to the get_rpc function in decode_proto.c.

Alerts:
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:1176-1 2011-10-24
Mageia MGASA-2012-0224 2012-08-18
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