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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-5243 (wireshark)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: wireshark-1.6.6-1.fc16
Date:  Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:23:18 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120419052318.8120920EDA@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-5243 2012-04-02 22:50:17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : wireshark Product : Fedora 16 Version : 1.6.6 Release : 1.fc16 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: The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. wnpa-sec-2012-04: The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (Bug 6823) wnpa-sec-2012-06: The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying to read ERF data. (Bug 6804) wnpa-sec-2012-07: The MP2T dissector could try to allocate too much memory and crash. (Bug 6833) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Mar 28 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 1.6.6-1 - upgrade to 1.6.6 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.6.html * Fri Mar 9 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 1.6.5-2 - fixed wireshark crashing when using combo box in import dialog (#773290) - added AES support into netlogon dissector * Wed Jan 11 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 1.6.5-1 - upgrade to 1.6.5 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.5.html * Fri Dec 2 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 1.6.4-1 - upgrade to 1.6.4 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.4.html - build with c-ares and libpcap (#759305) - fixed display of error message boxes on startup in gnome3 (#752559) * Mon Nov 14 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 1.6.3-2 - added dependency on shadow-utils (#753293) - removed usermode support * Wed Nov 2 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 1.6.3-1 - upgrade to 1.6.3 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.3.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #807611 - CVE-2012-1593 wireshark: NULL pointer dereference in ANSI A dissector https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807611 [ 2 ] Bug #807624 - CVE-2012-1594 wireshark: Infinite loop in the IEEE 802.11 dissector https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807624 [ 3 ] Bug #807644 - CVE-2012-1595 wireshark: Heap-based buffer overflow when reading ERF packets from pcap/pcap-ng trace files https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807644 [ 4 ] Bug #807661 - CVE-2012-1596 wireshark: MP2T dissector memory allocation flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807661 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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