Secunia Security Advisory - Mandriva has issued an update for wireshark. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Mandriva update for wireshark
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21649
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21649/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Mandriva Linux 2006
http://secunia.com/product/9020/
DESCRIPTION:
Mandriva has issued an update for wireshark. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause
a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable
system.
For more information:
SA21597
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
Mandrivalinux 2006
1f1b6dde31ccffecec0becac8030d9de
2006.0/RPMS/libwireshark0-0.99.3a-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
cb9cdd31a4c90304c914321ab3dfd2a4
2006.0/RPMS/tshark-0.99.3a-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
8e74c5353478976f0ee6d71e3b46e86a
2006.0/RPMS/wireshark-0.99.3a-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
2e67c0eb582071bd8c2e54aca4f62ba2
2006.0/RPMS/wireshark-tools-0.99.3a-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
6eec092b55f355784be22b3d882d3dd0
2006.0/SRPMS/wireshark-0.99.3a-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm
Mandrivalinux 2006/X86_64
37fa691ba28677df6151fea044cf8bab
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/lib64wireshark0-0.99.3a-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
589494b9575fff2893a18e512bf16111
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/tshark-0.99.3a-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
2985ec930be990b4112fa43b126b5b2c
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/wireshark-0.99.3a-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
29698141534040ce6b1dbb9cd9b3f995
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/wireshark-tools-0.99.3a-0.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
6eec092b55f355784be22b3d882d3dd0
x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/wireshark-0.99.3a-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:152
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA21597:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21597/
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