[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: wireshark-1.2.6-1.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-3556
2010-03-03 23:02:18
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 1.2.6
Release     : 1.fc12
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 upstream version 1.2.6, fixing a security flaw:    *
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-02.html    For full release
notes, see:    * http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.6.html
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar  2 2010 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> - 1.2.6-1
- upgrade to 1.2.6
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.6.html 
- minor spec file tweaks for better svn checkout support (#553500)
- fix file list, init.lua is only in -devel subpackage (#552406)
* Fri Dec 18 2009 Patrick Monnerat <pm at datasphere.ch> 1.2.5-3
- Autoconf macro for plugin development.
* Fri Dec 18 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> - 1.2.5-2
- upgrade to 1.2.5
- fixes security vulnaribilities, see http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-09.html 
- split -devel package (#547899, #203642, #218451)
- removing root warning dialog (#543709)
- enable lua support - http://wiki.wireshark.org/Lua
- attempt to fix filter crash on 64bits
* Wed Nov 18 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> - 1.2.4-1
- upgrade to 1.2.4
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.4.html
* Fri Oct 30 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> - 1.2.3-1
- upgrade to 1.2.3
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.3.html
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #559793 - CVE-2010-0304 wireshark: crash in LWRES dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559793
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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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