Fedora Linux 8510 Published by

An ehtereal update is available for Fedora Core 1

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-152
2004-06-03
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Product : Fedora Core 1
Name : ethereal
Version : 0.10.3
Release : 0.1.1
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.



---------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Ethereal are strongly encouraged to update to these latest packages.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Fri May 28 2004 Phil Knirsch pknirsch@redhat.com 0.10.3-0.1.1

- Updated to ethereal-0.10.3
- Included backported security fixes from ethereal-0.10.4

* Wed Mar 24 2004 Phil Knirsch pknirsch@redhat.com 0.10.2.20040324-0.1

- Another updated to CVS version to fix more security problems.

* Mon Mar 15 2004 Phil Knirsch pknirsch@redhat.com 0.10.2-0.1

- Update to latest upstream version 0.10.2.
- Make security errata.


---------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/

1025a0c7d6dbe9369a2353764ddbc7b9 SRPMS/ethereal-0.10.3-0.1.1.src.rpm
124a9a2914c592276bd0427009c7883c i386/ethereal-0.10.3-0.1.1.i386.rpm
3ec831cf4eaddee5184ddd18796aedc3 i386/ethereal-gnome-0.10.3-0.1.1.i386.rpm
3504ec2a5dfd51cde2b1262644e5ccf0
i386/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.3-0.1.1.i386.rpm
441e043616370ee4b13e81ca20094d61 x86_64/ethereal-0.10.3-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm
ad048fccfa453591c96f3dabc18c5f14
x86_64/ethereal-gnome-0.10.3-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm
f89c1bf94f358917813352a0cd82b561
x86_64/debug/ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.3-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm

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