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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:
IMAP dissector crash (Bug 13466) CVE-2017-7703
WBMXL dissector infinite loop (Bug 13477) CVE-2017-7702
NetScaler file parser infinite loop (Bug 13478) CVE-2017-7700
RPCoRDMA dissector infinite loop (Bug 13558) CVE-2017-7705
BGP dissector infinite loop (Bug 13557) CVE-2017-7701
PacketBB dissector crash (Bug 13559)
SLSK dissector long loop (Bug 13576)
SIGCOMP dissector infinite loop (Bug 13578)
WSP dissector infinite loop (Bug 13581)
The following bugs have been fixed:
ASTERIX, BGP, BT AVRCP, DNS, EAPOL-MKA, GIOP, ICMP, IEEE 802.15.4, IMAP, ISIS LSP, iSNS, LAPSat, MIH, MySQL, NBAP, PacketBB, PEEKREMOTE, RPCoRDMA, RTMTP, RTPproxy, SCCP, SIGCOMP, SLSK, SSH, T.30, TAPA, UA3G, WASSP, WBXML, WLCCP, WSP, and ZigBee ZCL IAS
There is no new or updated capture file support in this release.
NetScaler
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)
Application crash when changing real-time option. (Bug 4035)
Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases. (Bug 4985)
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.