[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: wireshark-1.2.16-1.fc13

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Tue Apr 26 21:52:59 UTC 2011


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-5529
2011-04-18 20:52:21
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 1.2.16
Release     : 1.fc13
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 latest release, fixing few security bugs.
See http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.16.html

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Apr 18 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.2.16-1
- upgrade to 1.2.16
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.16.html
* Thu Mar  3 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.2.15-1
- upgrade to 1.2.15
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html
* Mon Jan 17 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.2.14-1
- upgrade to 1.2.14
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.14.html
* Wed Jan  5 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.2.13-2
- fixed buffer overflow in ENTTEC dissector (#666897)
* Mon Nov 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.2.13-1
- upgrade to 1.2.13
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.13.html
* Mon Sep 13 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.2.11-1
- upgrade to 1.2.11
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.11.html
- Resolves: #632539
* Tue Aug 24 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.2.10-1
- upgrade to 1.2.10
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.10.html
- Resolves: #625940 CVE-2010-2287 CVE-2010-2286 CVE-2010-2284 CVE-2010-2283
* Mon May 17 2010 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> - 1.2.8-3
- removing traling bracket from python_sitearch (#592391)
* Fri May  7 2010 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> - 1.2.8-2
- add libtool patch
* Fri May  7 2010 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com> - 1.2.8-1
- use sitearch instead of sitelib to avoid pyo and pyc conflicts
- upgrade to 1.2.8
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.8.html
- rebuild with GeoIP support (needs to be turned on in IP protocol preferences)
- bring back -pie
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #697741 - CVE-2011-1590 Wireshark: Use-after-free causes heap-based buffer overflow in X.509if dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697741
  [ 2 ] Bug #697746 - CVE-2011-1591 Wireshark: Heap-based buffer overflow in DECT dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697746
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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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