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[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc7

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-0982
2007-07-09 23:43:05.980418
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 0.99.6
Release     : 1.fc7
Summary     : Network traffic analyzer
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

- multiple security issues fixed
- Wireshark could crash when dissecting an HTTP chunked response
- Wireshark could crash while reading iSeries capture files
- Wireshark could exhaust system memory while reading a
malformed DCP ETSI packet
- Wireshark could loop excessively while reading a malformed SSL packet
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jul  9 2007 Radek Vokál <rvokal@redhat.com> 0.99.6-1
- multiple security issues fixed
- Wireshark could crash when dissecting an HTTP chunked response
- Wireshark could crash while reading iSeries capture files
- Wireshark could exhaust system memory while reading a
malformed DCP ETSI packet
- Wireshark could loop excessively while reading a malformed SSL packet
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Updated packages:

17f1221b13e929170cec9ab1cef3afaf371b0c69 wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc7.src.rpm
bad1ba601f12e130fe64ee702e7ad1a3504a152a wireshark-debuginfo-0.99.6-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
26fd419022687a6fa8b56b8f2c71b018aaa5b9f1 wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
2f7169de28641a6e7a3c5bf98d55b5a3e8617bf1 wireshark-gnome-0.99.6-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
e25a9be472fad5d06f33023147ea778dcc638481 wireshark-debuginfo-0.99.6-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
2a245ea96e6f083b999a9b7a2fc96028bcff9e24 wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
c298a1aaa19d62f8fef8a64bf1d8d5044d8619ac wireshark-gnome-0.99.6-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
d281ed9a7444cecca1460afe3fd081582434b532 wireshark-debuginfo-0.99.6-1.fc7.i386.rpm
5badf50f7143f467bcbc7c474a7b978910a2893a wireshark-gnome-0.99.6-1.fc7.i386.rpm
cbc582914573db06d4f2815452ca4cf980876a69 wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc7.i386.rpm
a6ee06256a8324d266f29ae37d9fe86ae72b22a5 wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
0594f8fcbfe08ed9a1b9b770f7939e0434c41678 wireshark-gnome-0.99.6-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
824ec88a4e7cc45afde6544fb8ac49f1d910c03c wireshark-debuginfo-0.99.6-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm

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://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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