[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: wireshark-1.4.6-1.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-5569
2011-04-19 19:08:25
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 1.4.6
Release     : 1.fc14
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-1.4.5.html and http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.6.html

Upgrade to latest release, fixing few security bugs.
See http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.5.html

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr 19 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.6-1
- upgrade to 1.4.6
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.6.html
* Mon Apr 18 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.5-1
- upgrade to 1.4.5
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.5.html
* Thu Mar  3 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.4-1
- upgrade to 1.4.4
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html
* Mon Jan 17 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.2-3
- upgrade to 1.4.3
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.3.html
* Wed Jan  5 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.2-2
- fixed buffer overflow in ENTTEC dissector (#666897)
* Mon Nov 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.2-1
- upgrade to 1.4.2
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.2.html
* Mon Nov  1 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.1-2
- temporarily disable zlib until
  https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4955 is resolved (#643461)
* Fri Oct 22 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1.4.1-1
- upgrade to 1.4.1
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.1.html
- Own the %{_libdir}/wireshark dir (#644508)
- associate *.pcap files with wireshark (#641163)
* Tue Oct  5 2010 jkeating - 1.4.0-2.1
- Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757
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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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