[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: wireshark-1.6.8-1.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-10175
2012-07-02 22:08:22
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.6.8
Release     : 1.fc16
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:

Update to latest upstream release, fixing few security bugs.

CVE-2012-2392: Infinite and large loops in ANSI MAP, ASF, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.3, and LTP dissectors.

CVE-2012-2393: Memory allocation flaw in the DIAMETER dissector.

CVE-2012-2394: Denial of service (crash) due memory alignment problem on SPARC and Itanium processors.

CVE-2012-3825: Integer overflows in BACapp and Bluetooth HCI dissectors, leading to DoS

CVE-2012-3826: Integer overflows in the R3 dissector, leading to DoS.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May 23 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.6.8-1
- upgrade to 1.6.8
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.8.html
* Mon May 21 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.6.7-2
- Removed dependency on GeoIP on RHEL.
* Tue Apr 10 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.6.7-1
- upgrade to 1.6.7
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.7.html
* Wed Mar 28 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.6.6-1
- upgrade to 1.6.6
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.6.html
* Fri Mar  9 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.6.5-2
- fixed wireshark crashing when using combo box in import dialog (#773290)
- added AES support into netlogon dissector
* Wed Jan 11 2012 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.6.5-1
- upgrade to 1.6.5
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.5.html
* Fri Dec  2 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.6.4-1
- upgrade to 1.6.4
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.4.html
- build with c-ares and libpcap (#759305)
- fixed display of error message boxes on startup in gnome3 (#752559)
* Mon Nov 14 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.6.3-2
- added dependency on shadow-utils (#753293)
- removed usermode support
* Wed Nov  2 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.6.3-1
- upgrade to 1.6.3
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.3.html
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #824426 - CVE-2012-2392 CVE-2012-2393 CVE-2012-2394 CVE-2012-3825 CVE-2012-3826 wireshark various flaws [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824426
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update wireshark' at the command line.
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