Fedora: Etherial buffer overflow vulnerability
These updated ethereal packages fix a security problem found in versions prior to 0.9.16
Summary
Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.
This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.
These updated ethereal packages fix a security problem found in versions prior to 0.9.16. It also fixes several other minor bugs and problems.
All users of ethereal are recommended to update to these newest packages.
- Added BuildRequires for elfutils-devel (#89466).
- Fixed buggy desktop entry (#105704).
- Fixed out of bound array access (#110749).
- Build Fedora core 1 errata for ethereal.
* Fri Nov 07 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@RedHat.com> 0.9.16-2
- rebuilt
* Wed Nov 05 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@RedHat.com> 0.9.16-1
- Updated to latest upstream version 0.9.16
SRPMS/ethereal-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.src.rpm
md5 sum: 4fea34a2e0e7e6c48dde6b2c08de549d
i386/ethereal-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.i386.rpm
md5 sum: 7e2d061e1e1c08fa6da4ab292647d6b4
i386/ethereal-gnome-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.i386.rpm
md5 sum: 0695ec2615b93668fecf2c750770815e
i386/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.i386.rpm
md5 sum: 670e64737be107e8c3e0c138de4c714a
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
FEDORA-2003-022 2003-11-25 Version : 0.9.16 Release : 2.FC1.1 Summary : Network traffic analyzer Description : Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package. These updated ethereal packages fix a security problem found in versions prior to 0.9.16. It also fixes several other minor bugs and problems. All users of ethereal are recommended to update to these newest packages. - Added BuildRequires for elfutils-devel (#89466). - Fixed buggy desktop entry (#105704). - Fixed out of bound array access (#110749). - Build Fedora core 1 errata for ethereal. * Fri Nov 07 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@RedHat.com> 0.9.16-2 - rebuilt * Wed Nov 05 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@RedHat.com> 0.9.16-1 - Updated to latest upstream version 0.9.16 SRPMS/ethereal-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.src.rpm md5 sum: 4fea34a2e0e7e6c48dde6b2c08de549d i386/ethereal-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.i386.rpm md5 sum: 7e2d061e1e1c08fa6da4ab292647d6b4 i386/ethereal-gnome-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.i386.rpm md5 sum: 0695ec2615b93668fecf2c750770815e i386/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.i386.rpm md5 sum: 670e64737be107e8c3e0c138de4c714a This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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