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Fedora 40: wireshark 2024-1949806a59 Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update for wireshark on Fedora 40 addresses CVE-2024-9781, ensuring security and functionality.
New version 4.2.8 Fix for CVE-2024-9781

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 4.2.8 Fix for CVE-2024-9781

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Change Log

* Thu Oct 10 2024 Michal Ruprich - 1:4.2.8-1 - New version 4.2.8

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2317649 - wireshark-4.4.1 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317649 [ 2 ] Bug #2317749 - CVE-2024-9781 wireshark: Improper Handling of Missing Values in Wireshark [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317749

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-1949806a59' 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: 4.2.8
Release: 1.fc40
URL: http://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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