MaxMind is discontinuing its legacy databases in April in favor of
GeoIP2, which use a newer database format (MaxMind DB). The reference C
library (libmaxminddb) is available under the Apache 2.0 license which
isn't quite compatible with ours.
Add mmdbresolve, a utility that reads IPv4 and IPv6 addresses on stdin
and prints resolved information on stdout. Place it under a liberal
license (MIT) so that we can keep libmaxminddb at arm's length. Add
epan/maxmind_db.[ch], which spawns mmdbresolve and communicates with it
via stdio.
Migrate the preferences and documentation to MaxMindDB.
Change the IPv4 and IPv6 asnum fields to FT_UINT32s. Change the
geographic coordinate fields to FT_DOUBLEs.
Bug: 10658
Change-Id: I24aeed637bea1b41d173270bda413af230f4425f
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/26214
Petri-Dish: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot
Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
Handling security fixes in source package wireshark
Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer and it's ability to perform deep
packet inspection in live traffic may encourage users to use Wireshark/Tshark
as a part of an intrusion detection or traffic monitoring system.
In that case, please note that Wireshark/Tshark may contain remotely
triggerable bugs causing crashes or allowing code injection.
Bugs allowing code injection will be fixed in regular Debian Security
Advisories, but fixes for pure crash bugs may be delayed.
-- Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:38:33 +0200