Fedora 0.9.16 Critical: Ethereal Buffer Overflow Fix Released

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.