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)