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ethereal 0.10.11 fixes lots of security issues



Hello,

The ethereal project released 0.10.11 today which fixes even more
security issues than the usual release, they are detailed in
  http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00019.html
and summarized in the Debian changelog entry:

ethereal (0.10.11-1) unstable; urgency=high

  * New upstream release; urgency high since it fixes security issues in the
    following dissectors:
    * format string vulnerabilities: ANSI A, DHCP
    * segmentation faults: GSM MAP, AIM, TZSP, Bittorrent, SMB, GSM, SMB
      NETLOGON
    * buffer overflows: DISTCC, FCELS, SIP, ISIS, CMIP, CMP, CMS, CRMF, ESS,
      OCSP, PKIX1Explitit, PKIX Qualified, X.509, NCP, ISUP, TCAP,
      Presentation
    * null pointer exception: KINK, WSP, SMB Mailslot, H.245, MGCP, RPC
    * infinite loops: LMP, EIGRP, MEGACO, L2TP
    * uncaught assertions: Telnet, 802.3, BER, IAX2, RADIUS, SMB PIPE, MRDISC
    * memory exhaustion: DICOM
    * unclassified: Fibre Channel, LDAP, NTLMSSP

 -- Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org>  Thu,  5 May 2005 08:43:00 +0200


Can I upload this to testing-proposed-updates ?  And is the correct
way simply to change the changelog first line to:
  ethereal (0.10.11-1) testing-proposed-updated unstable; urgency=high
?


Regards,

        Frederic

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