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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2324-1] wireshark security update



On 21/10/2011 09:38, A Mennucc wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 09:45:59PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>> Package        : wireshark
>> Vulnerability  : programming error
>> Problem type   : remote
>> Debian-specific: no
>> CVE ID         : CVE-2011-3360 
>>
>> The Microsoft Vulnerability Research group discovered that insecure
>> load path handling could lead to execution of arbitrary Lua script code.
> 
> How comes that Microsoft invests money in auditing open-source 
> software?

Just to say that they found (thus there are) more vulnerabilities in
FLOSS software than in their proprietary products...

:-P

Gio.
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