[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: wireshark-1.4.12-1.fc15
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Thu Apr 19 05:22:33 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5256
2012-04-02 22:51:04
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Name : wireshark
Product : Fedora 15
Version : 1.4.12
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:
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed.
wnpa-sec-2012-04: The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (Bug 6823)
wnpa-sec-2012-06: The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying to read ERF data. (Bug 6804)
wnpa-sec-2012-07: The MP2T dissector could try to allocate too much memory and crash. (Bug 6833)
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Mar 28 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.12-1
- upgrade to 1.4.12
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.12.html
* Wed Jan 11 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.11-1
- upgrade to 1.4.11
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.11.html
* Fri Dec 2 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.10-2
- fixed display of error message boxes on startup in gnome3 (#752559)
* Wed Nov 2 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.10-1
- upgrade to 1.4.10
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.10.html
* Fri Sep 9 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.9-1
- upgrade to 1.4.9
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.9.html
* Thu Jul 21 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.8-1
- upgrade to 1.4.8
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.8.html
* Thu Jun 16 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.7-2
- fixed Fedora-specific message when user is not part of 'wireshark' group
- now it does not contain '<' and '>' characters (#713545)
* 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 #807644 - CVE-2012-1595 wireshark: Heap-based buffer overflow when reading ERF packets from pcap/pcap-ng trace files
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807644
[ 2 ] Bug #807661 - CVE-2012-1596 wireshark: MP2T dissector memory allocation flaw
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807661
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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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