[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: wireshark-1.4.6-1.fc15

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Tue Apr 26 16:01:49 UTC 2011


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-5621
2011-04-20 02:38:49
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.4.6
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:

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

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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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