Advisories » MGASA-2017-0445

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 07 Dec 2017
Modification date: 09 Dec 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-17083 , CVE-2017-17084 , CVE-2017-17085

Description

The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.2.11, which fixes a
few 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=22109
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-47.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-48.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-49.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.2.11.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/news/20171130.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17083
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17084
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17085

SRPMS

6/core

• wireshark-2.2.11-1.mga6