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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 SPOOLS dissector could go into an infinite loop. Discovered by the CESG.
The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash. (Bug 11585)
The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash. Discovered by Mateusz Jurczyk. (Bug 12175)
The UMTS FP dissector could crash. (Bug 12191)
Some USB dissectors could crash. Discovered by Mateusz Jurczyk. (Bug 12356)
The Toshiba file parser could crash. Discovered by iDefense Labs. (Bug 12394)
The CoSine file parser could crash. Discovered by iDefense Labs. (Bug 12395)
The NetScreen file parser could crash. Discovered by iDefense Labs. (Bug 12396)
The Ethernet dissector could crash. (Bug 12440)
The following bugs have been fixed:
- Saving pcap capture file with ERF encapsulation creates an invalid pcap file. (Bug 3606)
- Questionable calling of Ethernet dissector by encapsulating protocol dissectors. (Bug 9933)
- Wireshark 1.12.0 does not dissect HTTP correctly. (Bug 10335)
- Don’t copy details of hidden columns. (Bug 11788)
- RTP audio player crashes. (Bug 12166)
- Crash when saving RTP audio Telephony→RTP→RTP Streams→Analyze→Save→Audio. (Bug 12211)
- Edit - preferences - add column field not showing dropdown for choices. (Bug 12321)
- Using _ws.expert in a filter can cause a crash. (Bug 12335)
- Crash in SCCP dissector UAT (Qt UI only). (Bug 12364)
- J1939 frame without data = malformed packet ? (Bug 12366)
- The stream number in tshark’s "-z follow,tcp,<stream number>" option is 0-origin rather than 1-origin. (Bug 12383)
- IP Header Length display filter should show calculated value. (Bug 12387)
- Multiple file radio buttons should be check boxes. (Bug 12388)
- Wrong check for getaddrinfo and gethostbyname on Solaris 11. (Bug 12391)
- ICMPv6 dissector doesn’t respect actual packet length. (Bug 12400)
- Format DIS header timestamp mm:ss.nnnnnn. (Bug 12402)
- RTP Stream Analysis can no longer be sorted in 2.0.3. (Bug 12405)
- RTP Stream Analysis fails to complete in 2.0.3 when packets are sliced. (Bug 12406)
- Network-Layer Name Resolution uses first 32-bits of IPv6 DNS address as IPv4 address in some circumstances. (Bug 12412)
- BACnet decoder incorrectly flags a valid APDU as a "Malformed Packet". (Bug 12422)
- Valid ISUP messages marked with warnings. (Bug 12423)
- Profile command line switch "-C" not working in Qt interface. (Bug 12425)
- MRCPv2: info column not showing info correctly. (Bug 12426)
- Diameter: Experimental result code 5142. (Bug 12428)
- Tshark crashes when analyzing RTP due to pointer being freed not allocated. (Bug 12430)
- NFS: missing information in getattr for supported exclusive create attributes. (Bug 12435)
- Ethernet type field with a value of 9100 is shown as "Unknown". (Bug 12441)
- Documentation does not include support for Windows Server 2012 R2. (Bug 12455)
- Column preferences ruined too easily. (Bug 12465)
- SMB Open andX extended response decoded incorrectly. (Bug 12472)
- SMB NtCreate andX with extended response sometimes incorrect. (Bug 12473)
- Viewing NFSv3 Data, checking SRTs doesn’t work. (Bug 12478)
- Make wireshark with Qt enabled buildable on ARM. (Bug 12483)
Windows installers and PortableApps® packages are dual signed using SHA-1 and SHA-256 in order to comply with Microsoft Authenticode policy. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users should ensure that update 3123479 is installed. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 users should ensure that hotfix 2763674 is installed.
AFS, ANSI IS-637 A, BACapp, BT BNEP, Cisco FabricPath MiM, CSN.1, DCERPC SPOOLS, DIS, Ethernet, GSM A RR, ICMPv6, IEEE 802.11, IPv4, ISUP, J1939, JXTA, LAPSat, LPADm, LTE-RRC, MRCPv2, NFS, OpenFlow, SGsAP, SMB, STT, TZSP, UMTS FP, and USB
Aethra, Catapult DCT2000, CoSine, DBS Etherwatch, ERF, iSeries, Ixia IxVeriWave, NetScreen, Toshiba, and VMS TCPIPtrace
Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from https://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)
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)
Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases. (Bug 4985)
The 64-bit version of Wireshark will leak memory on Windows when the display depth is set to 16 bits (Bug 9914)
Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. (Bug 10488)
Dell Backup and Recovery (DBAR) makes many Windows applications crash, including Wireshark. (Bug 12036)
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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