ALAS-2017-813


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-813
Advisory Release Date: 2017-04-04 12:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-04-04 12:00 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malicious dump file.


Affected Packages:

wireshark


Issue Correction:
Run yum update wireshark to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    wireshark-1.8.10-25.22.amzn1.i686
    wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-25.22.amzn1.i686
    wireshark-devel-1.8.10-25.22.amzn1.i686

src:
    wireshark-1.8.10-25.22.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-25.22.amzn1.x86_64
    wireshark-devel-1.8.10-25.22.amzn1.x86_64
    wireshark-1.8.10-25.22.amzn1.x86_64