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Fedora 40: 2024-105eb3026f Critical: Wireshark NTLMSSP Crash

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The update for Wireshark version 4.2.7 in Fedora 40 addresses the CVE-2024-8250 security flaw successfully.
New version 4.2.7, fix for CVE-2024-8250

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.

Update Information:

New version 4.2.7, fix for CVE-2024-8250

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora network analysis Wireshark NTLMSSP

Change Log

* Thu Aug 29 2024 Michal Ruprich - 1:4.2.7-1 - New version 4.2.7

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2298524 - wireshark-4.4.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2298524 [ 2 ] Bug #2308432 - CVE-2024-8250 wireshark: NTLMSSP dissector crash [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308432

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-105eb3026f' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: wireshark
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 4.2.7
Release: 1.fc40
URL: http://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora network analysis Wireshark NTLMSSP

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