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Ethereal &EtherealCurrentVersion; Release Notes
What is Ethereal?
Ethereal is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It
is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education.
What's New
Bugfixes
The following bugs have been fixed since the previous release:
The ISAKMP dissector could exhaust system memory.
Versions affected: 0.10.11 to 0.10.12.
The FC-FCS dissector could exhaust system memory.
Versions affected: 0.9.0 to 0.10.12.
The RSVP dissector could exhaust system memory.
Versions affected: 0.9.4 to 0.10.12.
The ISIS LSP dissector could exhaust system memory.
Versions affected: 0.8.18 to 0.10.12.
The IrDA dissector could crash.
Versions affected: 0.10.0 to 0.10.12.
The SLIMP3 dissector could overflow a buffer.
Versions affected: 0.9.1 to 0.10.12.
The BER dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop.
Versions affected: 0.10.3 to 0.10.12.
The SCSI dissector could dereference a null pointer and crash.
Versions affected: 0.10.3 to 0.10.12.
If the "Dissect unknown RPC program numbers" option was enabled,
the ONC RPC dissector might be able to exhaust system memory.
This option is disabled by default.
Versions affected: 0.7.7 to 0.10.12.
The sFlow dissector could dereference a null pointer and crash.
Versions affected: 0.9.14 to 0.10.12.
New and Updated Features
The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since
the last release:
The Ethereal Windows installer has been updated and now includes the
latest WinPcap released version 3.1 instead of the former 3.1 beta 4.
Getting Ethereal
Microsoft Windows
Download ethereal-setup-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.exe from the
Windows
download area on the main web site. Double-click the
installer executable.
Sun Solaris
Download the appropriate package from the
Solaris
download area on the main web site. Uncompress the package
using bzip2, and install it using pkgadd.
Source Code
Download ethereal-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.tar.gz from the
main
download area on the web site. Extract the package
using tar and gzip. Run "configure ; make ; make install".
Vendor-supplied Packages
Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Ethereal packages.
You can install or upgrade Ethereal using the package management
system specific to that platform.
Frequently Asked Questions