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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9638
2011-07-23 01:33:57
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.4.8
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:

Wireshark 1.4.8 fixes the following vulnerabilities:

The Lucent/Ascend file parser was susceptible to an infinite loop.
 CVE-2011-2597.
The ANSI MAP dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop. CVE-2011-2698.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jul 21 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 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 <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 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 <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 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 <steved@redhat.com> - 1.4.6-3
- Improved the NFS4.1 patcket dissectors
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #719753 - CVE-2011-2597 wireshark: infinite loop DoS in
 lucent/ascend file parser
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719753
  [ 2 ] Bug #723215 - CVE-2011-2698 wireshark: Infinite loop in the ANSI A
 Interface (IS-634/IOS) dissector
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723215
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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
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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