Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0328 (wireshark)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0328: Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sun, 3 Sep 2017 16:32:13 +0200
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MGASA-2017-0328 - Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Sep 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0328.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6

Description:
The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.2.9, which fixes a few
security issues where a malformed packet trace could cause it to crash or
go into an infinite loop, and fixes several other bugs as well.  See the
release notes for details.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21642
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-38.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-39.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-41.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.2.9.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/news/20170829.html

SRPMS:
- 6/core/wireshark-2.2.9-1.mga6