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Fedora: 2018-b7a58187ba Critical: Wireshark Crash Issues

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest release of Wireshark, version 2.6.4, brings vital patches addressing security issues in Fedora 29, boosting overall protection.
New version 2.6.4, contains security fix for CVE-2018-16056, CVE-2018-16057, CVE-2018-16058.

Summary

Wireshark allows you to examine protocol data stored in files or as it is

captured from wired or wireless (WiFi or Bluetooth) networks, USB devices,

and many other sources. It supports dozens of protocol capture file formats

and understands more than a thousand protocols.

It has many powerful features including a rich display filter language

and the ability to reassemble multiple protocol packets in order to, for

example, view a complete TCP stream, save the contents of a file which was

transferred over HTTP or CIFS, or play back an RTP audio stream.

New version 2.6.4, contains security fix for CVE-2018-16056, CVE-2018-16057,

CVE-2018-16058.

* Mon Nov 12 2018 Michal Ruprich - 1:2.6.4-1

- New version 2.6.4

- Contains fixes for CVE-2018-16056, CVE-2018-16057, CVE-2018-16058

[ 1 ] Bug #1625921 - CVE-2018-16058 wireshark: Bluetooth AVDTP dissector crash

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625921

[ 2 ] Bug #1625922 - CVE-2018-16056 wireshark: Bluetooth Attribute Protocol dissector crash

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625922

[ 3 ] Bug #1625925 - CVE-2018-16057 wireshark: Radiotap dissector crash

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625925

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-b7a58187ba' 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 29
Version: 2.6.4
Release: 1.fc29
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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