Advisories » MGASA-2015-0323

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 25 Aug 2015
Modification date: 25 Aug 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4 , 5

Description

The wireshark package has been updated to version 1.12.7, which fixes several
security issues where a malformed packet trace could cause it to crash or go
into an infinite loop, and fixes several other bugs as well.  See the release
notes for details.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16582
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-21.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-22.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-23.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-24.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-25.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-26.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-27.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-28.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-29.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.7.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/news/20150812.html

SRPMS

4/core

• wireshark-1.12.7-1.mga4

5/core

• wireshark-1.12.7-1.mga5