Explore top 10 tips to secure your open-source projects now. Read More

×
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 443
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 443

Fedora 22: 2015-13945 Moderate - Wireshark Network Analyzer Security Update

fedora
Calendar Grey October 7, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhancements in network packet inspection gained from Fedora 22's latest Wireshark version resolving various concerns, notably around libnl3.
- Enable libnl3 (see rhbz#1207386, rhbz#1247566) - Remove airpcap switch (doesn't have any effect on Linux) - Backport patch no

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:

- Enable libnl3 (see rhbz#1207386, rhbz#1247566) - Remove airpcap switch (doesn't have any effect on Linux) - Backport patch no. 11 - Fixed building with F24+ * Ver. 1.12.7

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora bug fix network analysis Wireshark libnl3

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1253361 - CVE-2015-6249 wireshark: WCCP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-29) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253361 [ 2 ] Bug #1253352 - CVE-2015-6241 wireshark: protocol tree crash (wnpa-sec-2015-21) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253352 [ 3 ] Bug #1253353 - CVE-2015-6242 wireshark: memory manager crash (wnpa-sec-2015-22) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253353 [ 4 ] Bug #1253354 - CVE-2015-6243 wireshark: Dissector table crash (wnpa-sec-2015-23) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253354 [ 5 ] Bug #1253355 - CVE-2015-6244 wireshark: ZigBee dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-24) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253355 [ 6 ] Bug #1253356 - CVE-2015-6245 wireshark: GSM RLC/MAC dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2015-25) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253356 [ 7 ] Bug #1253357 - CVE-2015-6246 wireshark: WaveAgent dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-26)...

Read the Full Advisory

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 22
Version: 1.12.7
Release: 2.fc22
URL: https://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora bug fix network analysis Wireshark libnl3

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.