Download Ethereal 0.99.0
Yesterday version 0.99.0 of the protocol analyzer Ethereal was released. This very comprehensive program can be used as a so-called packet sniffer and is able to parse and analyze no fewer than 759 different network protocols and data that is sent over the network. It can also use already stored data traffic as input. Numerous changes have been made in this release, including some that were funded by the security company with a grant from US Homeland Security Coverity have been brought up. The changelog looks like this:
Bug Fixes
- The H.248 dissector could crash.
- The UMA dissector could go into an infinite loop.
- The X.509if dissector could crash.
- The SRVLOC dissector could crash.
- The H.245 dissector could crash.
- Ethereal’s OID printing routine was susceptible to an off-by-one error.
- The COPS dissector could overflow a buffer.
- The ALCAP dissector could overflow a buffer.
- The statistics counter could crash Ethereal.
- Ethereal could crash while reading a malformed Sniffer capture.
- An invalid display filter could crash Ethereal.
- The general packet dissector could crash Ethereal.
- The AIM dissector could crash Ethereal.
- The RPC dissector could crash Ethereal.
- The DCERPC dissector could crash Ethereal.
- The ASN.1 dissector could crash Ethereal.
- The SMB PIPE dissector could crash Ethereal.
- The BER dissector could loop excessively.
- The SNDCP dissector could abort.
- The Network Instruments file code could overrun a buffer.
- The NetXray/Windows Sniffer file code could overrun a buffer.
- The GSM SMS dissector could crash Ethereal.
- The ALCAP dissector could overrun a buffer.
- The telnet dissector could overrun a buffer.
- ASN.1-based dissectors could crash Ethereal.
- The H.248 dissector could crash Ethereal.
- The DCERPC NT dissector could crash Ethereal.
- The PER dissector could crash Ethereal.
New and Updated Features
- The new command line tool dumpcap makes it possible to capture network data without the drawbacks of
Version number 0.99.0 Operating systems Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, Windows XP, Solaris, Windows Server 2003 Website Ethereal, Inc. Download License type Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.)