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Fedora: Wireshark Critical Vulnerabilities Patch Release on 2016-01-17

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Calendar Grey January 17, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Wireshark's latest update for Fedora 22 fixes network analysis vulnerabilities, enhances data capture reliability, and boosts application security for users
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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:

Ver. 1.12.9

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora critical flaw network analysis wireshark

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1296097 - wireshark: various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296097 [ 2 ] Bug #1234417 - wireshark: various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234417

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 22
Version: 1.12.9
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora critical flaw network analysis wireshark

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