Advisories » MGASA-2017-0113

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Apr 2017
Modification date: 19 Apr 2023
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-6472 , CVE-2017-7700 , CVE-2017-7701 , CVE-2017-7702 , CVE-2017-7703 , CVE-2017-7705

Description

The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.0.12, which fixes
multiple 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=20673
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-04.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-12.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-13.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-15.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-16.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-18.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-19.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-20.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-21.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.0.12.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/news/20170412.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6472
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7700
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7701
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7702
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7703
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7705

SRPMS

5/core

• wireshark-2.0.12-1.mga5