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| [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc9 |
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| Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:54:08 +0000 |
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-1877
2009-02-19 00:18:12
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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