[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: wireshark-1.0.7-1.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-3599
2009-04-13 18:43:27
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 1.0.7
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:

upgrade to wireshark-1.0.7 fixes various security flaws.
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-02.html
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ChangeLog:

* 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 #493973 - CVE-2009-1210 wireshark: format string in PROFINET dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493973
  [ 2 ] Bug #495119 - CVE-2009-1268 Wireshark CHAP dissector crash
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495119
  [ 3 ] Bug #495121 - CVE-2009-1269 Wireshark Tektronix .rf5 file crash
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495121
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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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