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Fedora: 2017-4373306257 Critical: Wireshark Memory Exhaustion Issue

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2017
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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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora memory issue network analysis Wireshark

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2.2.6
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora memory issue network analysis Wireshark

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