Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0324 (wireshark)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0324: Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities 
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Fri, 1 Sep 2017 23:11:12 +0200
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MGASA-2017-0324 - Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 01 Sep 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0324.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5

Description:
The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.0.15, which fixes a
couple 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=21643
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-38.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-41.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.0.15....
- https://www.wireshark.org/news/20170829.html

SRPMS:
- 5/core/wireshark-2.0.15-1.mga5