[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: wireshark-1.4.7-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-7821
2011-06-03 05:02:46
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.4.7
Release     : 1.fc15
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 latest release, fixing few security bugs. See http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.7.html.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jun  2 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.7-1
- upgrade to 1.4.7
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.7.html
* Thu May 19 2011 Steve Dickson <steved at redhat.com> - 1.4.6-3
- Improved the NFS4.1 patcket dissectors
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #710109 - CVE-2011-2175 wireshark: Heap-based buffer over-read in Visual Networks dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710109
  [ 2 ] Bug #710097 - CVE-2011-2174 wireshark: Double-free flaw by uncompressing of a zlib compressed packet
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710097
  [ 3 ] Bug #710039 - CVE-2011-1959 wireshark: Stack-based buffer over-read from tvbuff buffer when reading snoop capture files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710039
  [ 4 ] Bug #710021 - CVE-2011-1957 wireshark: Infinite loop in the DICOM dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710021
  [ 5 ] Bug #710184 - CVE-2011-1958 wireshark (64bit): NULL pointer dereference by processing of a corrupted Diameter dictionary file
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710184
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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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