[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc10
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Thu Mar 5 16:35:39 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-1798
2009-02-17 14:51:32
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Name : wireshark
Product : Fedora 10
Version : 1.0.6
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:
Few minor security issues were fixed in new version of wireshark. Security-
related bugs in the Tektronix K12 and NetScreen file formats have been fixed.
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html NFSv4.1: Add support
for backchannel decoding - Dynamically registers a callback dissector
based on the CREATE_SESSION args. - Supports the decoding of CB_SEQUENCE,
CB_RECALL, CB_LAYOUTRECALL operations
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ChangeLog:
* 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 #485888 - CVE-2009-0599 wireshark: denial of service (application crash) via a malformed NetScreen snoop file.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485888
[ 2 ] Bug #485889 - CVE-2009-0600 wireshark: denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Tektronix K12 text capture file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485889
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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/.
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