Fedora 10: FEDORA-2009-1798 Moderate: Wireshark Stability Problems

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.

Few minor security issues were fixed in new version of wireshark. Security-related bugs in the Tektronix K12 and NetScreen file formats have been fixed.

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html NFSv4.1: Add support

for backchannel decoding - Dynamically registers a callback dissector

based on the CREATE_SESSION args. - Supports the decoding of CB_SEQUENCE,

CB_RECALL, CB_LAYOUTRECALL operations

* Tue Feb 17 2009 Radek Vokal 1.0.6-1

- add netdump2 support

- fix SELinux issues, remove pie patch

- upgrade to 1.0.6

* Sun Feb 15 2009 Steve Dickson - 1.0.5-2

- NFSv4.1: Add support for backchannel decoding

* Mon Dec 15 2008 Radek Vokal 1.0.5-1

- upgrade to 1.0.5

* Thu Nov 13 2008 Radek Vokál 1.0.4-1

- upgrade to 1.0.4

- varios minor security flaws were fixed

[ 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

su -c 'yum update wireshark' at the command line.

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