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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:
NLM dissector crash.
BER dissector crash.
Zlib decompression crash. (Bug 11548)
SCTP dissector crash. (Bug 11767)
DIAMETER dissector crash. (Bug 11792)
RSVP dissector crash. (Bug 11793)
ANSI A & GSM A dissector crashes. (Bug 11797)
Ascend file parser crash. (Bug 11794)
NBAP dissector crash. (Bug 11815)
RSL dissector crash. (Bug 11829)
ZigBee ZCL dissector crash. (Bug 11830)
Sniffer file parser crash. (Bug 11827)
NWP dissector crash. (Bug 11726)
BT ATT dissector crash. (Bug 11817)
MP2T file parser crash. (Bug 11820)
MP2T file parser crash. (Bug 11821)
S7COMM dissector crash. (Bug 11823)
IPMI dissector crash. (Bug 11831)
TDS dissector crash. (Bug 11846)
PPI dissector crash. (Bug 11876)
MS-WSP dissector crash. (Bug 11931)
The Windows installers are now built using NSIS 2.50 in order to avoid DLL hijacking flaws.
The following bugs have been fixed:
6LoWPAN, ANSI A, ASN.1 BER, BT ATT, CIP, CLNP, DIAMETER, DNS, ENIP, ERF, GSM A, GSM SMS, HiSLIP, ICMP, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11 Radio, IPMI, IPv4, IPv6, ISUP, L2TP, LDAP, Link (ethertype), MIP6, MP2T, MS-WSP, NBAP, NWP, PacketBB, PPI, QUIC, RADIUS, RSL, RSVP, S7COMM, SCSI, SCTP, SMTP, SSL, TCP, TDS, USB, VRT, and ZigBee ZCL
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)
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.