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Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education.
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for details and a workaround.
The X.509sat dissector could crash.
Versions affected: 0.99.5 to 0.99.8
The Roofnet dissector could crash on Windows, Solaris, and possibly other platforms.
Versions affected: 0.99.5 to 0.99.8
The LDAP dissector could crash on Windows and possibly other platforms.
Versions affected: 0.99.2 to 0.99.8
The SCCP dissector could crash while using the "decode as" feature.
Versions affected: 0.99.6 to 0.99.8
The following bugs have been fixed:
Several SNMP-related bugs have been fixed.
Several memory-related bugs have been fixed.
The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since the last release:
The "About" box finally displays version 1.0.
Wireshark now supports custom columns.
This release includes an experimental Mac OS X package.
IEEE 802.15.4, Infiniband, Parallel Redundancy Protocol, RedBack Lawful Intercept, Xcsl
AFS, ALCAP, ATM, BACapp, CIGI, DCC (renamed from DCCP), DCCP (renamed from DCP), DCERPC SPOOLSS, DCERPC NT, DHCP, DirectPlay, EtherCAT, FIX, GIOP, GTP, H.248, HTTP, ICMPv6, ICQ, IPv6, ISIS, JXTA, NCP, P_Mul, PCAP, PKIX1Explicit, PTP, RADIUS, Roofnet, RTCP, RTMPT, RTP, RX, SABP, SCSI OSD, sFlow, SMPP, SNMP, SSCOP, TAPA, TIPC, TPNCP, UNISTIM, X.25, X.509sat, XML
Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from the download page on the main web site.
Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can be found on the download page on the Wireshark web site.
Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use About->Folders to find the default locations on your system.
Wireshark may appear offscreen on multi-monitor Windows systems. (Bug 553)
Wireshark might make your system disassociate from a wireless network on OS X. (Bug 1315)
Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug 1419)
Wireshark is unable to decrypt WPA group keys. (Bug 1420)
The BER dissector might infinitely loop. (Bug 1516)
Wireshark can't dynamically update the packet list. This means that host name resolutions above a certain response time threshold won't show up in the packet list. (Bug 1605)
Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes. (Bug 1814)
Wireshark might freeze when reading from a pipe. (Bug 2082)
Capturing from named pipes might be delayed on Windows. (Bug 2200)
Filtering tshark captures with display filters (-R) no longer works. (Bug 2234)
The BOOTP dissector fails to initialize and display some values. (Bug 2395)
Community support is available on the wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives for all of Wireshark's mailing lists can be found on the web site.
Commercial support, training, and development services are available from CACE Technologies.
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.
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