[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: wireshark-1.0.0-1.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-3040
2008-04-08 23:50:12
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.0.0
Release     : 1.fc8
URL         : http://www.wireshark.org/
Summary     : Network traffic analyzer
Description :
Wireshark 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 wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.

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Update Information:

Upgrade to 1.0.0 fixes several security flaws (wireshark crashes, see BZ
references).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #435483 - CVE-2008-1072 wireshark: TFTP dissector crash
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435483
  [ 2 ] Bug #440015 - CVE-2008-1562 wireshark: crash in LDAP dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440015
  [ 3 ] Bug #435481 - CVE-2008-1070 wireshark: SCTP dissector crash
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435481
  [ 4 ] Bug #439943 - CVE-2008-1563 wireshark crash in SCCP dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439943
  [ 5 ] Bug #440014 - CVE-2008-1561 wireshark: crash in X.509sat and Roofnet dissectors
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440014
  [ 6 ] Bug #435482 - CVE-2008-1071 wireshark: SNMP dissector crash
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435482
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update wireshark' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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