Fedora 23: wireshark Security Update 2015-13946
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
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1253360 - CVE-2015-6248 wireshark: Ptvcursor crash (wnpa-sec-2015-28) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253360 [ 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 #1253357 - CVE-2015-6246 wireshark: WaveAgent dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-26) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253357 [ 4 ] 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 [ 5 ] Bug #1253354 - CVE-2015-6243 wireshark: Dissector table crash (wnpa-sec-2015-23) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253354 [ 6 ] Bug #1253353 - CVE-2015-6242 wireshark: memory manager crash (wnpa-sec-2015-22) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253353 [ 7 ] Bug #1253359 - CVE-2015-6247 wireshark: OpenFlow dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2015-27) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253359 [ 8 ] Bug #1253355 - CVE-2015-6244 wireshark: ZigBee dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-24) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253355 [ 9 ] Bug #1253361 - CVE-2015-6249 wireshark: WCCP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-29) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253361
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 .