[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: wireshark-1.0.3-1.fc9
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Thu Sep 11 17:11:17 UTC 2008
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7936
2008-09-11 11:03:52
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Name : wireshark
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 1.0.3
Release : 1.fc9
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 upstream version 1.0.3. Detailed upstream release notes:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.0.3.html Security issues
addressed in the new upstream version: http://www.wireshark.org/security
/wnpa-sec-2008-05.html
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Sep 10 2008 Radek Vokál <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.0.3-1
- upgrade to 1.0.3
- Security-related bugs in the NCP dissector, zlib compression code, and Tektronix .rf5 file parser have been fixed.
- WPA group key decryption is now supported.
- A bug that could cause packets to be wrongly dissected as "Redback Lawful Intercept" has been fixed.
* Fri Jul 11 2008 Radek Vokál <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.0.2-1
- upgrade to 1.0.2, several security vulnarabilities fixed
* Sun Jun 29 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> 1.0.0-3
- add sparc arches to -fPIE
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #461242 - CVE-2008-3146 wireshark: multiple buffer overflows in NCP dissector
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461242
[ 2 ] Bug #461243 - CVE-2008-3932 wireshark: infinite loop in the NCP dissector
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461243
[ 3 ] Bug #461244 - CVE-2008-3933 wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461244
[ 4 ] Bug #461245 - CVE-2008-3934 wireshark: crash via crafted Tektronix .rf5 file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461245
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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
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