[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: wireshark-1.6.5-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-0435
2012-01-14 03:35:26
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.6.5
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:

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
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ChangeLog:

* 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 #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
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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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