Ethereal-announce: [Ethereal-announce] URGENT: Ethereal 0.8.14 is available
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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:18:45 -0500
The source code to Ethereal 0.8.14 is available for download at: http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/ethereal-0.8.14.tar.gz The patch from 0.8.13 to 0.8.14 is: http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/patch-ethereal-0.8.13-to-0.8.14.diff.bz2 Besides the new dissectors (WAP, SIP, AIM/OSCAR, GIOP 1.2, 802.11) and updates to many many dissectors, an exploit for a buffer overrun in the AFS dissector has been patched. Please upgrade to 0.8.14 as soon as possible to guard against this exploit, which was announced this weekend in BugTraq. --gilbert Overview of changes in Ethereal 0.8.14: * Fix time-difference computation in tethereal (Guy) * SMB LOGON update (Richard) * Continue capturing if netmask on interface is not found (Guy) * Add fourth choice of time format: date/time (Guy) * AFS update (Nathan) * WAP support (Neil Hunter, Guy) * SIP support (Heikki Vatiainen) * FTP update (Richard) * Plugins can specify several underlying protocols (Olivier) * Dissector cleanup (Guy) * AIM/OSCAR support (Ralf Holzer) * Use preference file field list for summary line in tethereal (Guy) * GIOP 1.2 support, and other GIOP updates (Craig Rodrigues, Guy) * Remove carriage returns in getopt.[ch] (Guy) * SDP handles embedded newlines (Robert Tsai) * Re-write of EIGRP dissector (Paul Ionescu) * Tethereal output cleanup (Guy) * MGCP dissector plugin (Ed Warnicke) * Tvbuffify: HTTP, NTTP, RSH, RTSP, Telnet, SAP, SDP, FTP, POP, TFTP, NBIPX, SMTP, 802.1Q VLAN, ATALK, AARP, ARP, IPP, STP, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, OSI CLNP, OSI COTP, OSI CLTP, OSI ESIS, PPoE, L2TP, X11 (Guy) * Tvbuffify: NetBIOS (Jeff Foster) * Add more tvbuff methods (Guy, Gilbert) * Correct IPv6 router renumbering dissector (Itojun) * ICMPv6 update (Itojun) * Re-work of logic in SMTP (Guy) * ATALK fix (Guy) * NetBIOS update (Gerald) * Code movement to libethereal (Guy) * Column-related fixes in DNS/NBNS (Gilbert) * Plugin API fix (Guy) * Documentation update (Guy) * IEEE 802.11 support (Johan Jorgensen, Axis Communications) * Dissectors can be registered by name, for later lookup (Guy) * GIOP update (Frank Singleton) * Tweak the DATA dissector (Guy) * NTP update (Phil Techau, Gerald) * Add #include's to clean compiler warnings (Craig) * Conversation fix (Guy) * Wiretap error-reporting fix (Guy) * Add col_set_str() to save memory-copying when the string is static (Guy) * Fix for AFS buffer-overrun exploit (Gerald) * Fix possible buffer overruns in NBNS, NTP, ICQ, resolv.c, pppdump.c (Gerald) * Tvbuffify: AUTO-RP (Heikki Vatiainen) * Have tethereal initialize winsock like Ethereal does (Gilbert)
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