What is Wireshark?
What’s New
Bug Fixes
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
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wnpa-sec-2020-07 The BACapp dissector could crash. Bug 16474. CVE-2020-11647.
The following bugs have been fixed:
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RTCP Bye without optional reason reported as [Malformed Packet]. Bug 16434.
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[oss-fuzz] #20732: Undefined-shift in dissect_rtcp. Bug 16445.
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tshark logs: "…could not be opened: Too many open files.". Bug 16457.
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Typo in About Wireshark > Keyboard Shortcuts > Unignore All Displayed. Bug 16472.
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[oss-fuzz] #21541: Stack-overflow in fAbstractSyntaxNType. Bug 16474.
New and Updated Features
There are no new features in this release.
New Protocol Support
There are no new protocols in this release.
Updated Protocol Support
AFS, BACapp, Bluetooth, Diameter3GPP, Modbus/TCP, NAS 5GS, pcap, and RTCP
New and Updated Capture File Support
pcap
New and Updated Capture Interfaces support
There is no new or updated capture file support in this release.
Getting Wireshark
Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
Vendor-supplied Packages
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.
File Locations
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.
Getting Help
The User’s Guide, manual pages and various other documentation can be found at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/
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.
Bugs and feature requests can be reported on the bug tracker.
Frequently Asked Questions
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.