-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2941 2008-04-08 23:42:00 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : wireshark Product : Fedora 7 Version : 1.0.0 Release : 1.fc7 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Upgrade to 1.0.0 fixes several security flaws (wireshark crashes, see BZ references). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #435483 - CVE-2008-1072 wireshark: TFTP dissector crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435483 [ 2 ] Bug #439943 - CVE-2008-1563 wireshark crash in SCCP dissector https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439943 [ 3 ] Bug #435481 - CVE-2008-1070 wireshark: SCTP dissector crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435481 [ 4 ] Bug #440014 - CVE-2008-1561 wireshark: crash in X.509sat and Roofnet dissectors https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440014 [ 5 ] Bug #440015 - CVE-2008-1562 wireshark: crash in LDAP dissector https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440015 [ 6 ] Bug #435482 - CVE-2008-1071 wireshark: SNMP dissector crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435482 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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