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Unhealthy Sniffing

Posted by timothy on from the price-of-slurping dept.

Simon Doring writes "Stefan Esser did it again. Yesterday he reported 13 remote root vulnerabilities in Ethereal. Time to teach all those sniffing kiddies an unhealthy lesson. The next LAN party will be a lot of fun."

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  1. Not the worst thing in the world by Old+Uncle+Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, I don't like remote root exploits any more than the next guy, but are there a lot of people who run this 24/7? For the one hour a week I run this tool, I'm not AS concerned as if it was my OS with those vulnerabilities *cough*Windows*cough*.

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    Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
  2. Congrats to Ethereal team for quick resolution by Paladine97 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You've got to hand it to the ethereal team for their quick fixes.

    The bottom of the advisory states that they were made aware on the 5th of March, and by the 23rd of March all the holes were fixed.