Advisories » MGASA-2016-0275

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Aug 2016
Modification date: 09 Aug 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-6505 , CVE-2016-6506 , CVE-2016-6508 , CVE-2016-6509 , CVE-2016-6510 , CVE-2016-6511 , CVE-2016-6512 , CVE-2016-6513

Description

The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.0.5, 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=19073
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-39.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-41.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-42.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-44.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-45.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-46.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-47.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-48.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-49.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.0.5.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/news/20160727.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6505
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6506
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6508
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6509
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6510
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6511
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6512
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6513

SRPMS

5/core

• wireshark-2.0.5-1.mga5