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Fedora 25: 2017-541aea2890 Moderate: Wireshark DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An important patch for Wireshark on Fedora 25 tackles significant concerns tied to network monitoring and weaknesses.
Security fix for

Summary

Metapackage with installs wireshark-cli and wireshark-qt.

Update Information:

Security fix for

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora DoS security fix network analyzer Wireshark

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1415964 - CVE-2017-5596 wireshark: ASTERIX infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2017-01) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415964 [ 2 ] Bug #1415965 - CVE-2017-5597 wireshark: DHCPv6 large loop (wnpa-sec-2017-02) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415965

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use 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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Name: wireshark
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2.2.4
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora DoS security fix network analyzer Wireshark

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