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Fedora Core 4: 2005-689 Notable: Ethereal Network Analyzer Security Update

To reduce the risk of future vulnerabilities in Ethereal, the ethereal and tethereal programs in this update have been compiled as Position Independant Executables (PIE).. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-689 2005-08-03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : ethereal Version : 0.10.12 Release : 1.FC4.2 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, and contains plugins and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: To reduce the risk of future vulnerabilities in Ethereal, the ethereal and tethereal programs in this update have been compiled as Position Independant Executables (PIE). ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Wed Aug 3 2005 Jindrich Novy 0.10.12-1.FC4.2 - compile ethereal and ethereal-gnome with PIE (#160780) ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: dbb553186b67819514632b038fc2464e SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-1.FC4.2.src.rpm 15ecd5d31b8696f8d787a18e79e0697b ppc/ethereal-0.10.12-1.FC4.2.ppc.rpm 4235d19e90e1c6b89a7ca42e86a58475 ppc/ethereal-gnome-0.10.12-1.FC4.2.ppc.rpm 64651c343718b7432bf599b3145459a2 ppc/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.12-1.FC4.2.ppc.rpm da30e3608ae2bb73bc7ceca4249b8915 x86_64/ethereal-0.10.12-1.FC4.2.x86_64.rpm 5b47f6eeb404fc6de60167b8a7cc716d x86_64/ethereal-gnome-0.10.12-1.FC4.2.x86_64.rpm 222a894054358079915cc265e8c149fc x86_64/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.12-1.FC4.2.x86_64.rpm 2256fc1545171867af9779663fc0962a i386/ethereal-0.10.12-1.FC4.2.i386.rpm 0f30303c5753cf5773de2597851d83bc i386/ethereal-gnome-0.10.12-1.FC4.2.i386.rpm 448038261bed0e474372113a747d49cf i386/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.12-1.FC4.2.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. -----------------------------------------------------------------------fedora-announce-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The latest patch for Ethereal on Fedora Core 4 resolves security issues and fortifies defenses by building applications with Position Independent Executables (PIE) for better protection.. ethereal update, network traffic analysis, security patch, Fedora Core. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Aug 03, 2005 •Important Fedora