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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:
DLL hijacking vulnerability. CVE-2016-2521
ASN.1 BER dissector crash. (Bug 11828) CVE-2016-2522
DNP dissector infinite loop. (Bug 11938) CVE-2016-2523
X.509AF dissector crash. (Bug 12002) CVE-2016-2524
HTTP/2 dissector crash. (Bug 12077) CVE-2016-2525
HiQnet dissector crash. (Bug 11983) CVE-2016-2526
3GPP TS 32.423 Trace file parser crash. (Bug 11982) CVE-2016-2527
LBMC dissector crash. (Bug 11984) CVE-2016-2528
iSeries file parser crash. (Bug 11985) CVE-2016-2529
RSL dissector crash. (Bug 11829) CVE-2016-2530 CVE-2016-2531
LLRP dissector crash. (Bug 12048) CVE-2016-2532
Ixia IxVeriWave file parser crash. (Bug 11795)
IEEE 802.11 dissector crash. (Bug 11818)
GSM A-bis OML dissector crash. (Bug 11825)
ASN.1 BER dissector crash. (Bug 12106)
SPICE dissector large loop. (Bug 12151)
NFS dissector crash.
ASN.1 BER dissector crash. (Bug 11822)
The following bugs have been fixed:
Windows installers and PortableApps® packages are now 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.
6LoWPAN, ACN, ASN.1 BER, BATADV, DICOM, DNP3, DOCSIS INT-RNG-REQ, E100, EIGRP, GSM A DTAP, GSM SMS, GTP, HiQnet, HTTP, HTTP/2, IEEE 802.11, IKEv2, InfiniBand, IPv4, IPv6, LBMC, LLRP, M3AP, MAC LTE, MP2T, MPLS, NFS, NS Trace, OSPF, PIM, PPTP, RLC LTE, RoHC, RPC, RSL, SNMP, SPICE, SSL, TCP, TRILL, VXLAN, WaveAgent, and X.509AF
3GPP TS 32.423 Trace, iSeries, Ixia IxVeriWave, pcap, and pcapng
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.