Advisories » MGASA-2016-0321

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 25 Sep 2016
Modification date: 27 Sep 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-7175 , CVE-2016-7176 , CVE-2016-7177 , CVE-2016-7178 , CVE-2016-7179 , CVE-2016-7180

Description

The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.0.6, which fixes several
security issues where a malformed packet trace could cause it to crash, and
fixes several other bugs as well.  See the release notes for details.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19442
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-50.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-51.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-52.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-53.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-54.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-55.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.0.6.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/news/20160908.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7175
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7176
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7177
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7178
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7179
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7180

SRPMS

5/core

• wireshark-2.0.6-1.mga5