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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-13592
2009-12-23 21:04:06
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Name : wireshark
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 1.2.5
Release : 3.fc12
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:
Various fixes were provided in wireshark 1.2.5 - see
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.5.html for more details.
Enhancements - introduced -devel package with autoconf support - enable Lua
support Fedora Bug Fixes - the root warning dialog no longer shows up
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for
details and a workaround.
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-
sec-2009-09.html - The Daintree SNA file parser could overflow a buffer. (Bug
4294) CVE-2009-4376 - The SMB and SMB2 dissectors could crash. (Bug 4301)
CVE-2009-4377 - The IPMI dissector could crash on Windows. (Bug 4319) The
following bugs have been fixed: - Wireshark does not graph rtp streams. (Bug
3801) - Wireshark showing extraneous data in a TCP stream. (Bug 3955) - Wrong
decoding of gtp.target identification. (Bug 3974) - TTE dissector bug. (Bug
4247) - Upper case in Lua pref symbol causes Wireshark to crash. (Bug 4255) -
OpenBSD 4.5 build fails at epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c. (Bug 4258) -
Incorrect display of stream data using "Follow tcp stream" option. (Bug 4288) -
Custom RADIUS dictionary can cause a crash. (Bug 4316) Updated Protocol
Support - DAP, eDonkey, GTP, IPMI, MIP, RADIUS, RANAP, SMB, SMB2, TCP, TTE,
VNC, X.509sat Updated Capture File Support - Daintree SNA.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Dec 18 2009 Patrick Monnerat <pm@datasphere.ch> 1.2.5-3
- Autoconf macro for plugin development.
* Fri Dec 18 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 1.2.5-2
- upgrade to 1.2.5
- fixes security vulnaribilities, see
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-09.html
- split -devel package (#547899, #203642, #218451)
- removing root warning dialog (#543709)
- enable lua support -
http://wiki.wireshark.org/Lua
- attempt to fix filter crash on 64bits
* Wed Nov 18 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 1.2.4-1
- upgrade to 1.2.4
-
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.4.html
* Fri Oct 30 2009 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 1.2.3-1
- upgrade to 1.2.3
-
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.3.html
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #549578 - CVE-2009-4377 wireshark: invalid pointer dereference in SMB/SMB2 dissectors
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549578
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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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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