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Fedora 40: Wireshark 4.2.5 Critical: Network Issues Fixes

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Calendar Grey May 31, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 40 enhances Wireshark to version 4.2.5, implementing essential security patches that resolve various vulnerabilities. Discover more details today!
New version 4.2.5

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 4.2.5. Includes fixes for CVE-2024-4853, CVE-2024-4854, CVE-2024-4855.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora network issues wireshark critical fixes

Change Log

* Wed May 22 2024 Michal Ruprich - 1:4.2.5-1 - New version 4.2.5

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2280712 - CVE-2024-4855 wireshark: Editcap byte chopping crash [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280712 [ 2 ] Bug #2280716 - CVE-2024-4854 wireshark: dissector infinite loop [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280716 [ 3 ] Bug #2280719 - CVE-2024-4853 wireshark: Editcap byte chopping crash [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280719 [ 4 ] Bug #2282006 - wireshark-4.2.5 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282006

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-cd1f01e5d9' 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: 4.2.5
Release: 1.fc40
URL: http://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

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security advisory software update Fedora network issues wireshark critical fixes

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