[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: wireshark-1.6.3-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-15290
2011-11-02 17:49:52
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.6.3
Release     : 1.fc16
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:

This update fixes several security bugs, see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/=
relnotes/wireshark-1.6.3.html for full details.
This update fixes wireshark-devel subpackage. See bug #746655 for details.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Nov  2 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.6.3-1
- upgrade to 1.6.3
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.3.html
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #750652 - wireshark: uninitialized variable in the CSN.1 dissec=
tor can cause a crash [fedora-16]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D750652
  [ 2 ] Bug #746655 - Devel subpackage no longer working
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D746655
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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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