Security update for wireshark

SUSE Security Update: Security update for wireshark

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Announcement ID:	SUSE-SU-2012:0574-1
Rating:	moderate
References:	#754474 #754475 #754476 #754477
Affected Products:	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 SLE SDK 10 SP4

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An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:

This version upgrade of wireshark fixes the following
security vulnerabilities:

* The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer
and crash. ( CVE-2012-1593
> )
* The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying
to read ERF data. (CVE-2012-1595
> )
* The MP2T dissector could try to allocate too much
memory and crash. ( CVE-2012-1596
> )

Additionally, various other non-security bugs have been
fixed.

Indications:

Everyone using wireshark should update.

Package List:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):

• wireshark-1.4.12-0.5.6
• wireshark-devel-1.4.12-0.5.6
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 x86_64):

• wireshark-1.4.12-0.5.6
• SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):

• wireshark-devel-1.4.12-0.5.6

References:

• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1593.html
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1594.html
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1595.html
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1596.html
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/754474
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/754475
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/754476
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/754477
• http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=23c9fd0f27644efe93d209c35cd2f52b