[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: wireshark-1.6.6-1.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5243
2012-04-02 22:50:17
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.6.6
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-2012-04: The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (Bug 6823)

wnpa-sec-2012-06: The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying to read ERF data. (Bug 6804)

wnpa-sec-2012-07: The MP2T dissector could try to allocate too much memory and crash. (Bug 6833)

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ChangeLog:

* 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 #807611 - CVE-2012-1593 wireshark: NULL pointer dereference in ANSI A dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807611
  [ 2 ] Bug #807624 - CVE-2012-1594 wireshark: Infinite loop in the IEEE 802.11 dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807624
  [ 3 ] Bug #807644 - CVE-2012-1595 wireshark: Heap-based buffer overflow when reading ERF packets from pcap/pcap-ng trace files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807644
  [ 4 ] Bug #807661 - CVE-2012-1596 wireshark: MP2T dissector memory allocation flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807661
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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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