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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-10175 (wireshark)

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To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: wireshark-1.6.8-1.fc16
Date:  Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:56:12 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120710205612.822652141A@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-10175 2012-07-02 22:08:22 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : wireshark Product : Fedora 16 Version : 1.6.8 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: Update to latest upstream release, fixing few security bugs. CVE-2012-2392: Infinite and large loops in ANSI MAP, ASF, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.3, and LTP dissectors. CVE-2012-2393: Memory allocation flaw in the DIAMETER dissector. CVE-2012-2394: Denial of service (crash) due memory alignment problem on SPARC and Itanium processors. CVE-2012-3825: Integer overflows in BACapp and Bluetooth HCI dissectors, leading to DoS CVE-2012-3826: Integer overflows in the R3 dissector, leading to DoS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed May 23 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 1.6.8-1 - upgrade to 1.6.8 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.8.html * Mon May 21 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 1.6.7-2 - Removed dependency on GeoIP on RHEL. * Tue Apr 10 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 1.6.7-1 - upgrade to 1.6.7 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.7.html * 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 #824426 - CVE-2012-2392 CVE-2012-2393 CVE-2012-2394 CVE-2012-3825 CVE-2012-3826 wireshark various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824426 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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