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Fedora 23: 2016-971f4f3a50 Critical: Wireshark Security Update

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Security update notice for Fedora 23 addressing wireshark version 1.12.9, which includes important corrections for network analysis functionalities.
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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 Fedora critical update network analyzer traffic analysis bug fixes 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 23
Version: 1.12.9
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical update network analyzer traffic analysis bug fixes Wireshark

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