[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: wireshark-1.0.2-1.fc9

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Tue Jul 15 12:18:41 UTC 2008


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-6440
2008-07-15 04:42:57
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 1.0.2
Release     : 1.fc9
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 upstream 1.0.2 that fixes several security vulnerabilities:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-03.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-04.html
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #454973 - CVE-2008-3140 wireshark: crash in the syslog dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454973
  [ 2 ] Bug #454970 - CVE-2008-3137 wireshark: crash in the GSM SMS dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454970
  [ 3 ] Bug #454984 - CVE-2008-3145 wireshark: crash in the packet reassembling
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454984
  [ 4 ] Bug #454971 - CVE-2008-3138 wireshark: unexpected exit in the PANA and KISMET dissectors
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454971
  [ 5 ] Bug #454975 - CVE-2008-3141 wireshark: memory disclosure in the RMI dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454975
  [ 6 ] Bug #454972 - CVE-2008-3139 wireshark: crash in the RTMPT dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454972
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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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