[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: wireshark-1.2.1-1.fc10

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-7998
2009-07-24 18:57:26
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 1.2.1
Release     : 1.fc10
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:

Rebased to 1.2.x, fixing several security flaws, see the security advisory for
details: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jul 22 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.2.1-1
- upgrade to 1.2.1
- fixes several security flaws
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.1.html
* Fri May 22 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.0.8-1
- upgrade to 1.0.8
- several security vulnerabilities have been fixed
- CVE-2009-1210 CVE-2009-1268 CVE-2009-1269
* Fri Apr 10 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.0.7-1
- upgrade to 1.0.7
- Several security vulnerabilities have been fixed
 (Profinet, CPHAP and LDAP dissectors could crash)
* Tue Feb 17 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.0.6-1
- add netdump2 support
- fix SELinux issues, remove pie patch
- upgrade to 1.0.6
* Sun Feb 15 2009 Steve Dickson <steved at redhat.com> - 1.0.5-2
- NFSv4.1: Add support for backchannel decoding
* Mon Dec 15 2008 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.0.5-1
- upgrade to 1.0.5
* Thu Nov 13 2008 Radek Vokál <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.0.4-1
- upgrade to 1.0.4
- varios minor security flaws were fixed
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #512953 - CVE-2009-2559 Wireshark-1.2.0: DoS (crash) due array index error in IPMI dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512953
  [ 2 ] Bug #513008 - CVE-2009-2560 Wireshark: Null-ptr dereference in the RADIUS dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513008
  [ 3 ] Bug #513033 - CVE-2009-2561 Wireshark: Dos (excessive CPU and memory use) via large amount of tree items in the sFlow dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513033
  [ 4 ] Bug #512987 - CVE-2009-2562 Wireshark: Integer overflow in the AFS dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512987
  [ 5 ] Bug #512992 - CVE-2009-2563 Wireshark: Null-ptr dereference in the InfiniBand dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512992
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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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