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A wireshark security update has been released for Fedora 31.



SECURITY: Fedora 31 Update: wireshark-3.2.6-1.fc31


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-2981a0224d
2020-08-27 14:20:34.188311
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Name : wireshark
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 3.2.6
Release : 1.fc31
URL :   http://www.wireshark.org/
Summary : Network traffic analyzer
Description :
Wireshark allows you to examine protocol data stored in files or as it is
captured from wired or wireless (WiFi or Bluetooth) networks, USB devices,
and many other sources. It supports dozens of protocol capture file formats
and understands more than a thousand protocols.

It has many powerful features including a rich display filter language
and the ability to reassemble multiple protocol packets in order to, for
example, view a complete TCP stream, save the contents of a file which was
transferred over HTTP or CIFS, or play back an RTP audio stream.

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Update Information:

New version 3.2.6, Security fix for CVE-2020-17498
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Aug 19 2020 Michal Ruprich - 1:3.2.6-1
- New version 3.2.6
- Fix for CVE-2020-17498
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1868885 - CVE-2020-17498 wireshark: Kafka protocol dissector could crash (wnpa-sec-2020-10)
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868885
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-2981a0224d' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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