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

Lionel Elie Mamane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.curiosa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:38:19AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 09:45:59PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>> Package        : wireshark

>> 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?

Because they (would like to) use it, find it a valuable tool, but
would like to avoid it being an attack vector into their network?

Your guess is as good as mine.

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Lionel
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