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Fedora: 2017-4373306257 Critical: Wireshark Memory Exhaustion Issue

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important Wireshark security patch for Fedora 25, tackling memory overflow vulnerabilities arising from improperly formatted capture files.
New upstream release 2.2.6

Summary

Metapackage with installs wireshark-cli and wireshark-qt.

New upstream release 2.2.6

[ 1 ] Bug #1425375 - CVE-2017-6014 wireshark: Memory exhaustion/infinite loop via malformed STANAG 4607 capture file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1425375

su -c 'dnf upgrade wireshark' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2.2.6
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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