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Fedora 10 Wireshark Update 2009-3599 Moderate Threat Resolved

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The update to Wireshark 1.0.7 on Fedora 10 addresses various vulnerabilities that affect network monitoring applications.
upgrade to wireshark-1.0.7 fixes various security flaws. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-02.html

Summary

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:

upgrade to wireshark-1.0.7 fixes various security flaws. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-02.html

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora security fix network tool wireshark

Change Log

* Fri Apr 10 2009 Radek Vokal 1.0.7-1 - upgrade to 1.0.7 - Several security vulnerabilities have been fixed (Profinet, CPHAP and LDAP dissectors could crash) * 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

References


[ 1 ] Bug #493973 - CVE-2009-1210 wireshark: format string in PROFINET dissector https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493973 [ 2 ] Bug #495119 - CVE-2009-1268 Wireshark CHAP dissector crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495119 [ 3 ] Bug #495121 - CVE-2009-1269 Wireshark Tektronix .rf5 file crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495121

Update Instructions

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 .

Name: wireshark
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.0.7
Release: 1.fc10
URL: https://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora security fix network tool wireshark

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