Fedora alert FEDORA-2004-153 (ethereal)

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Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com>
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[SECURITY] Fedora Core 2 Update: ethereal-0.10.3-2.1
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Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:02:32 +0200


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-153
2004-06-03
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Product     : Fedora Core 2
Name        : ethereal
Version     : 0.10.3
Release     : 2.1
Summary     : Network traffic analyzer
Description :
Ethereal 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 ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.

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Update Information:

  Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors:

     * A SIP packet could make Ethereal crash under specific conditions, 
as described in the following message:
       http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200405/msg00018.html
       (0.10.3).
     * The AIM dissector could throw an assertion, causing Ethereal to 
terminate abnormally (0.10.3).
     * It was possible for the SPNEGO dissector to dereference a null 
pointer, causing a crash (0.9.8 to 0.10.3).
     * The MMSE dissector was susceptible to a buffer overflow. (0.10.1 
to 0.10.3).

All users of the Ethereal package are strongly encouraged to update to these
latest packages.

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* Tue Jun 01 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com> 0.10.3-2.1

- Included backported security fixes from ethereal-0.10.4


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This update can be downloaded from:
   http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/

047f4b58fc2ce78dff5f7f27d588faa7  SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.3-2.1.src.rpm
c5954b26aa5e448eb7a1ad1d9ac08692  i386/ethereal-0.10.3-2.1.i386.rpm
052063b1167471b6fcedfa7222a2fc4c  i386/ethereal-gnome-0.10.3-2.1.i386.rpm
625e6397e449a2025a4b87fa3724e9cc 
i386/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.3-2.1.i386.rpm
efdd124a1b6cdbd61d13ddadb1b0ec28  x86_64/ethereal-0.10.3-2.1.x86_64.rpm
b0b0bd164858519f316feddeaf3e2db7 
x86_64/ethereal-gnome-0.10.3-2.1.x86_64.rpm
57537ac043966efcd69683c547639302 
x86_64/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.3-2.1.x86_64.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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