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Fedora Core 3: 2005-690 Moderate: Ethereal Security Enhancement

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-2005-690 2005-08-03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : ethereal Version : 0.10.12 Release : 1.FC3.2 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.FC3.2 - compile ethereal and ethereal-gnome as PIE (#160780) ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: a2abfa19fc3feb3113175f4c3fc0b171 SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-1.FC3.2.src.rpm 3f055849172d4ee7f54d67bd515b10c7 x86_64/ethereal-0.10.12-1.FC3.2.x86_64.rpm be5db1603070e139072964f083f9ada8 x86_64/ethereal-gnome-0.10.12-1.FC3.2.x86_64.rpm 1908be5c867732b1aab5f132457404c7 x86_64/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.12-1.FC3.2.x86_64.rpm 6f65a2d30e5076996c2d667410fed69d i386/ethereal-0.10.12-1.FC3.2.i386.rpm c85de2079b2f1e2dd44d2ff5c35156d9 i386/ethereal-gnome-0.10.12-1.FC3.2.i386.rpm 1170e7b8b0de84065ff820178674350b i386/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.12-1.FC3.2.i386.rpm This update can also be installed withthe 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 revision for Fedora Core 3 emphasizes bolstering defenses against potential threats via enhancements to PIEx compiled applications.. Ethereal Update,Fedora Core 3,Network Analyzer,Risk Reduction. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Aug 03, 2005 Fedora