Bug 199231

Summary: Replace (EOL) Ethereal with Wireshark
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: etherealAssignee: Radek Vokál <rvokal>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 4.0CC: laroche, security-response-team
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0602 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Mark J. Cox 2006-07-18 07:08:06 UTC 
Description of problem:

When the developers of Ethereal switched companies they continued to work on the
codebase of Ethereal, but were not able to keep the name.  Wireshark is the
'fork' that is continued to be supported for security updates.
http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#q1.2

This means that the Ethereal project are unlikely to provide fixes for security
or other issues in Ethereal.  Ethereal has a history of needing frequent
security updates, and those updates are substantial making backporting infeasible.

The proposal is to therefore replace Ethereal with Wireshark in a security
update to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 

The Wireshark project has already produced a security update which escalates
this proposal.
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-08-16 13:42:10 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0602.html