Hi Peter, On 09/12/2013 10:00 AM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Hello All! > > There are *lots* of CVEs against Wireshark shipped with Fedora 18 > (quite old 1.8.8 version). > > * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/965942 > * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/972762 > * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/990189 > > In order to fix them and not to add additional work for the > maintainers I'm thinking of upgrading up to 1.10.2 from 1.8.x. Well, idea looks fine, but before pushing such update, give us some time to reply to your message (3 minutes is not enough). > > Instead of backporting stuff let's build the latest stable! I'm sure > users will love this, since new Wireshark adds a lot of new features > and fixes all these CVEs. > I would rather stick to 1.8.10, which is the latest Maintenance release of wireshark. 1.8.10 will be certainly more OK with Fedora Update Policy [1] [2] [3]. I don't think, Wireshark is on exception list. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Stable_Releases [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Philosophy [3] Have a nice day :) -- Peter Hatina ENG Server Experience, System Management Red Hat Czech, Brno -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
