-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-5256 2012-04-02 22:51:04 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : wireshark Product : Fedora 15 Version : 1.4.12 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Mar 28 2012 Jan Safranek <[email protected]> - 1.4.12-1 - upgrade to 1.4.12 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.12.html * Wed Jan 11 2012 Jan Safranek <[email protected]> - 1.4.11-1 - upgrade to 1.4.11 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.11.html * Fri Dec 2 2011 Jan Safranek <[email protected]> - 1.4.10-2 - fixed display of error message boxes on startup in gnome3 (#752559) * Wed Nov 2 2011 Jan Safranek <[email protected]> - 1.4.10-1 - upgrade to 1.4.10 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.10.html * Fri Sep 9 2011 Jan Safranek <[email protected]> - 1.4.9-1 - upgrade to 1.4.9 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.9.html * Thu Jul 21 2011 Jan Safranek <[email protected]> - 1.4.8-1 - upgrade to 1.4.8 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.8.html * Thu Jun 16 2011 Jan Safranek <[email protected]> - 1.4.7-2 - fixed Fedora-specific message when user is not part of 'wireshark' group - now it does not contain '<' and '>' characters (#713545) * Thu Jun 2 2011 Jan Safranek <[email protected]> - 1.4.7-1 - upgrade to 1.4.7 - see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.7.html * Thu May 19 2011 Steve Dickson <[email protected]> - 1.4.6-3 - Improved the NFS4.1 patcket dissectors -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] 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 [ 2 ] Bug #807661 - CVE-2012-1596 wireshark: MP2T dissector memory allocation flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807661 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
