Advisories » MGASA-2017-0328

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Sep 2017
Modification date: 09 Dec 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-13766

Description

The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.2.9, which fixes a few
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=21642
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-38.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-39.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-41.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.2.9.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/news/20170829.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13766

SRPMS

6/core

• wireshark-2.2.9-1.mga6