Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200501-27 (ethereal)

Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200501-27.
Solution
All Ethereal users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.9' http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200501-27 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78559 http://www.ethereal.com/news/item_20050120_01.html
Insight
Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal, which may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code, crash the program or perform DoS by CPU and disk utilization.