| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to wireshark
announced via advisory FEDORA-2006-1140.
Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.
This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.
* Wed Nov 1 2006 Radek Vokál 0.99.4-1
- upgrade to 0.99.4-1, fixes multiple security issues
- CVE-2006-5468 - The HTTP dissector could dereference a null pointer.
- CVE-2006-5469 - The WBXML dissector could crash.
- CVE-2006-5470 - The LDAP dissector (and possibly others) could crash.
- CVE-2006-4805 - Basic DoS, The XOT dissector could attempt to allocate a large amount of memory and crash.
- CVE-2006-4574 - Single byte \0 overflow written onto the heap
* Tue Oct 10 2006 Radek Vokal 0.99.4-0.pre1
- upgrade to 0.99.4-0.pre1
* Fri Aug 25 2006 Radek Vokál 0.99.3-1
- upgrade to 0.99.3
- Wireshark 0.99.3 fixes the following vulnerabilities:
- the SCSI dissector could crash. Versions affected: CVE-2006-4330
- the IPsec ESP preference parser was susceptible to off-by-one errors. CVE-2006-4331
- a malformed packet could make the Q.2931 dissector use up available memory. CVE-2006-4333
* Tue Jul 18 2006 Radek Vokál 0.99.2-1
- upgrade to 0.99.2
* Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating - 0.99.2-0.pre1.1
- rebuild
* Tue Jul 11 2006 Radek Vokál 0.99.2-0.pre1
- upgrade to 0.99.2pre1, fixes (#198242)
* Tue Jun 13 2006 Radek Vokal 0.99.1-0.pre1
- spec file changes
* Fri Jun 9 2006 Radek Vokal 0.99.1pre1-1
- initial build for Fedora Core
Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/
This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2006-1140
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score:
5.4
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