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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-1877 (wireshark)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc9
Date:  Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:54:08 +0000
Message-ID:  <20090316195421.0ABA5208770@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-1877 2009-02-19 00:18:12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : wireshark Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.0.6 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.wireshark.org/ Summary : Network traffic analyzer Description : Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Minor security issues are fixed in new version of wireshark. Security-related bugs in the Tektronix K12 and NetScreen file formats have been fixed. http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Feb 17 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> 1.0.6-1 - upgrade to 1.0.6 * Mon Dec 15 2008 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> 1.0.5-1 - upgrade to 1.0.5 * Wed Sep 10 2008 Radek Vokál <rvokal@redhat.com> 1.0.3-1 - upgrade to 1.0.3 - Security-related bugs in the NCP dissector, zlib compression code, and Tektronix .rf5 file parser have been fixed. - WPA group key decryption is now supported. - A bug that could cause packets to be wrongly dissected as "Redback Lawful Intercept" has been fixed. * Fri Jul 11 2008 Radek Vokál <rvokal@redhat.com> 1.0.2-1 - upgrade to 1.0.2, several security vulnarabilities fixed * Sun Jun 29 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> 1.0.0-3 - add sparc arches to -fPIE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #485888 - CVE-2009-0599 wireshark: denial of service (application crash) via a malformed NetScreen snoop file. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485888 [ 2 ] Bug #485889 - CVE-2009-0600 wireshark: denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Tektronix K12 text capture file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485889 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update wireshark' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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