This release fixes the following security-related issues:

The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop. (CAN-2005-0006)

The DLSw dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal exit prematurely. (CAN-2005-0007)

The DNP dissector could cause memory corruption. (CAN-2005-0008)

The Gnutella dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal exit prematurely. (CAN-2005-0009)

The MMSE dissector could free static memory. (CAN-2005-0010)

The X11 protocol dissector is vulnerable to a string buffer overflow. (CAN-2005-0084)

Please see the application advisory for more information

Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.

New and updated features

Ethereal will now detect and flag weak 802.11 WEP IVs.

Windows Sniffer timestamp handling has been greatly improved.

A bug which made Ethereal crash at startup on Windows 98 and Windows ME systems has been fixed.

Ethereal and Tethereal now support a personal "hosts" file.

Invalid field length handling has been greatly improved.

The capture progress window title now shows the interface name.

New protocol support

ALC, AMR, CRMF, JXTA, NORM, PKIXCMP, PROFINET CBA

Updated protocol support

AIM, ARP, BGP, BOOTP/DHCP, COPS, DAAP, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC, DCOM, DHCPv6, DLSw, DNP, DNS, EAPOL, eDonkey, FC-dNS, FC-FCS, FC-SWILS, FCIP, FCSB3, FIX, GIOP, Gnutella, GSM A, GSM SMS, GTP, H.225, H.245, HTTP, ICMP, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802a, image/GIF, image/JFIF, Kerberos, L2TP, LDAP, LLC, LMP, MGCP, MIME Multipart, MMSE, MPLS, MTP2, NBNS, NDMP, NMAS, NSIP, OLSR, PER, pflog, PGM, PostgreSQL, PPP, PRES, Q.931, RADIUS, RTCP, RTP, SDP, SEBEK, SIGCOMP, SIP, SLSK, SMB, SMPP, SRVLOC, SSL/TLS, T.38, TACACS, TCAP, TCP, X11

New and updated capture file support

Windows Sniffer