-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-0440 2012-01-14 03:35:41 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : wireshark Product : Fedora 15 Version : 1.4.11 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. wnpa-sec-2012-01 Laurent Butti discovered that Wireshark failed to properly record sizes for many packet capture file formats.
wnpa-sec-2012-02 Wireshark could dereference a NULL pointer and crash
wnpa-sec-2012-03 The RLC dissector could overflow a buffer
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Wed Jan 11 2012 Jan Safranek jsafrane@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@redhat.com - 1.4.10-2 - fixed display of error message boxes on startup in gnome3 (#752559) * Wed Nov 2 2011 Jan Safranek jsafrane@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@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@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@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@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@redhat.com - 1.4.6-3 - Improved the NFS4.1 patcket dissectors -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #773726 - CVE-2012-0041 wireshark: multiple file parser vulnerabilities (wnpa-sec-2012-01) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773726 [ 2 ] Bug #773728 - CVE-2012-0042 wireshark: NULL pointer vulnerabilities (wnpa-sec-2012-02) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773728 [ 3 ] Bug #773729 - CVE-2012-0043 wireshark: RLC dissector buffer overflow (wnpa-sec-2012-03) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773729 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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