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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.
The NFS dissector could crash. Discovered by Moshe Kaplan. (Bug 9672)
Versions affected: 1.10.0 to 1.10.5, 1.8.0 to 1.8.12
The M3UA dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti. (Bug 9699)
Versions affected: 1.10.0 to 1.10.5
The RLC dissector could crash. (Bug 9730)
Versions affected: 1.10.0 to 1.10.5, 1.8.0 to 1.8.12
The MPEG file parser could overflow a buffer. Discovered by Wesley Neelen. (Bug 9843)
Versions affected: 1.10.0 to 1.10.5, 1.8.0 to 1.8.12
The following bugs have been fixed:
- Customized OUI is not recognized correctly during dissection. (Bug 9122)
- Properly decode CAPWAP Data Keep-Alives. (Bug 9165)
- Build failure with GTK 3.10 - GTK developers have gone insane. (Bug 9340)
- SIGSEGV/SIGABRT during free of TvbRange using a chained dissector in lua. (Bug 9483)
- MPLS dissector no longer registers itself in "ppp.protocol" table. (Bug 9492)
- Tshark doesn’t display the longer data fields (mbtcp). (Bug 9572)
- DMX-CHAN disector does not clear strbuf between rows. (Bug 9598)
- Dissector bug, protocol SDP: proto.c:4214: failed assertion "length >= 0". (Bug 9633)
- False error: capture file appears to be damaged or corrupt. (Bug 9634)
- SMPP field source_telematics_id field length different from spec. (Bug 9649)
- Lua: bitop library is missing in Lua 5.2. (Bug 9720)
- GTPv1-C / MM Context / Authentication quintuplet / RAND is not correct. (Bug 9722)
- Lua: ProtoField.new() is buggy. (Bug 9725)
- Lua: ProtoField.bool() VALUESTRING argument is not optional but was supposed to be. (Bug 9728)
- Problem with CAPWAP Wireshark Dissector. (Bug 9752)
- nas-eps dissector: CS Service notification dissection stops after Paging identity IE. (Bug 9789)
AppleTalk, CAPWAP, DMX-CHAN, DSI, DVB-CI, ESS, GTPv1, IEEE 802a, M3UA, Modbus/TCP, NAS-EPS, NFS, OpenSafety, SDP, and SMPP
Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from http://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
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.
Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug 1419)
The BER dissector might infinitely loop. (Bug 1516)
Capture filters aren’t applied when capturing from named pipes. (Bug 1814)
Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works. (Bug 2234)
The 64-bit Windows installer does not support Kerberos decryption. (Win64 development page)
Resolving (Bug 9044) reopens (Bug 3528) so that Wireshark no longer automatically decodes gzip data when following a TCP stream.
Application crash when changing real-time option. (Bug 4035)
Hex pane display issue after startup. (Bug 4056)
Packet list rows are oversized. (Bug 4357)
Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained. (Bug 4445)
Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases. (Bug 4985)
Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site and on the wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives for all of Wireshark’s mailing lists can be found on the web site.
Official Wireshark training and certification are available from Wireshark University.
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.
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