Software Update: Ethereal 0.10.10

Anyone who goes deeper into maintaining a network structure or trying to solve communication problems on a network often uses a so-called packet sniffer. The program Ethereal is able to analyze the data that is sent over the network in different network protocols, so that you can monitor the network traffic as a whole. You can also use already saved data traffic as input for the program. Version 0.10.10 was recently released and has the following release notes:

This release fixes three security and stability-related issues:

• Matevz Pustisek discovered a buffer overflow in the Etheric dissector. †CAN-2005-0704†
• The GPRS-LLC dissector could crash if the “ignore cipher bit” option was enabled. †CAN-2005-0705†
• Diego Giago discovered a buffer overflow in the 3GPP2 A11 dissector. This flaw was later reported by Leon Juranic. †CAN-2005-0699†
• Leon Juranic discovered a buffer overflow in the IAPP dissector.
• A bug in the JXTA dissector could make Ethereal crash.
• A bug in the sFlow dissector could make Ethereal crash.

Please see the application advisory for more information.
Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.

New and updated features:

• Tree view item context menus now let you browse to the display filter reference and wiki pages for a particular protocol.
• Online help has been expanded.
• VoIP call analysis (including nifty connection diagrams) has been added.
• GSS API decryption has been greatly enhanced.

New protocol support:

AgentX, BUDB, DTP, G.723, IDP, INAP, KINK, Realplayer Data Protocol, Retix Spanning Tree Protocol, RTCP-XR, XML, XNS, SPP

Updated protocol support:

3GPP2 A11, ACSE, AMR, ATM, BER, BSSGP, BUTC, CDP, CLNP, CoSine L2, DAAP, DCE/RPC, DCOM, DIAMETER, DNP, DNS, Etheric, FCP, FW-1, Gnutella, GPRS, GSM A , GSM MAP, H.225, H.245, H.248, H.450, HTTP, IAX2, ICQ, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.3 Slow Protocols, IP, iSCSI, ISUP, Juniper, JXTA, Kerberos, L2TP, LDAP, MIP, MPLS, NDMP, NSIP, NTP, OSPF, OXID, PostgreSQL, RADIUS, RDT, Redback, RMCP, RTP, RTSP, SCSI, SCTP, SDP, SPNEGO, SSL, STUN, TCAP, TCP, TZSP

New and updated capture file support:

DBS Etherwatch, Lucent/Ascend, Nettl, Tcpdump (Redback)