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Fedora 10: 2009-5382 Critical Update for Wireshark Security Flaws

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Calendar Grey May 25, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest patch addresses several vulnerabilities in Wireshark for Fedora 10. Discover the details of the enhancements and guidance on how to install them.
Update to 1.0.8 fixes various security flaws. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-03.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:

Update to 1.0.8 fixes various security flaws. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-03.html

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security advisory critical issue Fedora update information security flaws network analysis wireshark

Change Log

* Fri May 22 2009 Radek Vokal 1.0.8-1 - upgrade to 1.0.8 - several security vulnerabilities have been fixed - CVE-2009-1210 CVE-2009-1268 CVE-2009-1269 * 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 #501929 - Wireshark: PCNFSD dissector crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501929

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 .

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Name: wireshark
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.0.8
Release: 1.fc10
URL: https://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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security advisory critical issue Fedora update information security flaws network analysis wireshark

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