[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: wireshark-1.0.3-1.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7894
2008-09-11 11:00:13
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.0.3
Release     : 1.fc8
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 1.0.3.    Detailed upstream release notes:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.0.3.html    Security issues
addressed in the new upstream version:  http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-
sec-2008-05.html
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Sep 10 2008 Radek Vokál <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.0.3-1
- upgrade to 1.0.3, fixes several security issues (#461254)
* Fri Jul 18 2008 Radek Vokál <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.0.2-1
- upgrade to 1.0.2, fixes a few security issues
* Thu Apr  3 2008 Radek Vokál <rvokal at redhat.com> 1.0.0-1
- upgrade to 1.0.0
* Wed Dec 19 2007 Radek Vokál <rvokal at redhat.com> 0.99.7-2
- fix crash with consolehelper (#317681)
* Tue Dec 18 2007 Radek Vokál <rvokal at redhat.com> 0.99.7-1
- upgrade to 0.99.7
- switch to libsmi from net-snmp
- disable ADNS due to its lack of Ipv6 support
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #461242 - CVE-2008-3146 wireshark: multiple buffer overflows in NCP dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461242
  [ 2 ] Bug #461243 - CVE-2008-3932 wireshark: infinite loop in the NCP dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461243
  [ 3 ] Bug #461244 - CVE-2008-3933 wireshark: crash triggered by zlib-compressed packet data
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461244
  [ 4 ] Bug #461245 - CVE-2008-3934 wireshark: crash via crafted Tektronix .rf5 file
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461245
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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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