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Fedora: Important Wireshark Security Update Fixes Crash Issues

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent Fedora 28 patch for Wireshark introduces crucial security enhancements and improves capabilities for network traffic analysis.
Removing dependency on wireshark metapackage from wireshark-cli ---- Added wireshark-qt to wireshark metapackage ---- - New version 2.4.5 - Contains fixes for CVE-2018-7419, CVE-20...

Summary

Metapackage with installs wireshark-cli and wireshark-qt.

Removing dependency on wireshark metapackage from wireshark-cli ---- Added

wireshark-qt to wireshark metapackage ---- - New version 2.4.5 - Contains

fixes for CVE-2018-7419, CVE-2018-7418, CVE-2018-7417, CVE-2018-7420,

CVE-2018-7320, CVE-2018-7336, CVE-2018-7337, CVE-2018-7334, CVE-2018-7335,

CVE-2018-6836, CVE-2018-5335, CVE-2018-5334, CVE-2017-6014, CVE-2017-9616,

CVE-2017-9617, CVE-2017-9766

[ 1 ] Bug #1555323 - WTF is wireshark-qt pulled as dependency

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1555323

[ 2 ] Bug #1554818 - tshark (wireshark-cli) should be installable without any GUI bits

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1554818

[ 3 ] Bug #1506859 - wireshark meta package is missing wireshark-qt dependency

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1506859

[ 4 ] Bug #1549309 - CVE-2018-7419 wireshark: NBAP dissector crash in nbap.cnf [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549309

[ 5 ] Bug #1549306 - CVE-2018-7418 wireshark: SIGCOMP dissector crash in packet-sigcomp.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549306

[ 6 ] Bug #1549302 - CVE-2018-7417 wireshark: IPMI dissector crash in packet-ipmi-picmg.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549302

[ 7 ] Bug #1549286 - CVE-2018-7420 wireshark: Pcapng file parser crash in pcapng.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549286

[ 8 ] Bug #1549278 - CVE-2018-7320 wireshark: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in SIGCOMP dissector crash in packet-sigcomp.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549278

[ 9 ] Bug #1549271 - CVE-2018-7336 wireshark: FCP dissector crash in packet-fcp.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549271

[ 10 ] Bug #1549266 - CVE-2018-7337 wireshark: DOCSIS dissector crash in packet-docsis.c by injecting a malformed packet [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549266

[ 11 ] Bug #1549256 - CVE-2018-7334 wireshark: out of bounds access in UMTS MAC dissector in packet-umts_mac.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549256

[ 12 ] Bug #1549246 - CVE-2018-7335 wireshark: IEEE 802.11 dissector crash in airpdcap.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549246

[ 13 ] Bug #1543583 - CVE-2018-6836 wireshark: free operation on an uninitialized memory address in wiretap/netmon.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1543583

[ 14 ] Bug #1534365 - CVE-2018-5335 wireshark: WCP dissector crash [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1534365

[ 15 ] Bug #1534362 - CVE-2018-5334 wireshark: IxVeriWave file parser crash [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1534362

[ 16 ] Bug #1425376 - CVE-2017-6014 wireshark: Memory exhaustion/infinite loop via malformed STANAG 4607 capture file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1425376

[ 17 ] Bug #1464052 - CVE-2017-9616 CVE-2017-9617 CVE-2017-9766 wireshark: various flaws [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464052

[ 18 ] Bug #1548665 - wireshark: Partial Fedora build flags injection

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1548665

[ 19 ] Bug #1542775 - wireshark-2.4.5 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542775

[ 20 ] Bug #1530895 - CVE-2017-17997 wireshark: Misuse of NULL pointer in MRDISC dissector [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530895

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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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 2.4.5
Release: 3.fc28
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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