[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: wireshark-1.6.2-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-12399
2011-09-09 15:06:43
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.6.2
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-1.6.2.html for full details.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #732947 - CVE-2011-3266 Wireshark proto_tree_add_item DoS
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732947
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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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