ethereal - several vulnerabilities

Gerald Combs reported several vulnerabilities in ethereal, a popular
network traffic analyser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2006-1932
  The OID printing routine is susceptible to an off-by-one error.
• CVE-2006-1933
  The UMA and BER dissectors could go into an infinite loop.
• CVE-2006-1934
  The Network Instruments file code could overrun a buffer.
• CVE-2006-1935
  The COPS dissector contains a potential buffer overflow.
• CVE-2006-1936
  The telnet dissector contains a buffer overflow.
• CVE-2006-1937
  Bugs in the SRVLOC and AIM dissector, and in the statistics
  counter could crash ethereal.
• CVE-2006-1938
  Null pointer dereferences in the SMB PIPE dissector and when
  reading a malformed Sniffer capture could crash ethereal.
• CVE-2006-1939
  Null pointer dereferences in the ASN.1, GSM SMS, RPC and
  ASN.1-based dissector and an invalid display filter could crash
  ethereal.
• CVE-2006-1940
  The SNDCP dissector could cause an unintended abortion.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.4-1woody15.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.10.10-2sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages.