Comment 10 for bug 1397091
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| Thomas Ward (teward) wrote Re: [Security] Update Wireshark in Precise, Trusty, and Utopic to 1.12.1+g01b65bf-2 (from Vivid) | #10 |
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(Get the code!)
Marc:
That's an option, of course, and I'd be happy to start doing that, the issue is going to be with Precise being on an unsupported release for which fixes aren't backported into anymore (whereas in 1.10 for Trusty, there's already fix backports upstream, based on what I'm able to tell so far.
As for what plugins they are which are impacted by this, as far as Evan explained in email:
"The main reason is that wireshark is not just a userspace application
- it is also an API. A substantial number of companies have private
internal protocol plugins based on our API - changing major versions
at *all* will break that API and cause serious regressions for those
companies."
I don't think we ship the plugins, as it appears that it's the companies themselves that create their own.
Again, though, ultimate decisions on this fall to the Security team, whatever you or anyone else decide