ethereal security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:427

The ethereal package is a program for monitoring network traffic.

A number of security flaws have been discovered in Ethereal. On a system
where Ethereal is running, a remote attacker could send malicious packets
to trigger these flaws and cause Ethereal to crash or potentially execute
arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
(cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CAN-2005-1456, CAN-2005-1457,
CAN-2005-1458, CAN-2005-1459, CAN-2005-1460, CAN-2005-1461, CAN-2005-1462,
CAN-2005-1463, CAN-2005-1464, CAN-2005-1465, CAN-2005-1466, CAN-2005-1467,
CAN-2005-1468, CAN-2005-1469, and CAN-2005-1470 to these issues.

Users of ethereal should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
version 0.10.11 which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-May/073910.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-May/073911.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-May/073916.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-May/073917.html

Affected packages:
ethereal
ethereal-devel
ethereal-gnome

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:427