[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: wireshark-1.4.8-1.fc15
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Wed Aug 10 03:21:15 UTC 2011
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9638
2011-07-23 01:33:57
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Name : wireshark
Product : Fedora 15
Version : 1.4.8
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.
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Update Information:
Wireshark 1.4.8 fixes the following vulnerabilities:
The Lucent/Ascend file parser was susceptible to an infinite loop. CVE-2011-2597.
The ANSI MAP dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop. CVE-2011-2698.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Jul 21 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at 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 at 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 at 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 at redhat.com> - 1.4.6-3
- Improved the NFS4.1 patcket dissectors
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #719753 - CVE-2011-2597 wireshark: infinite loop DoS in lucent/ascend file parser
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719753
[ 2 ] Bug #723215 - CVE-2011-2698 wireshark: Infinite loop in the ANSI A Interface (IS-634/IOS) dissector
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723215
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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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