Wireshark 3.6.13 Release Notes
What is Wireshark?
Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.
What’s New
This is the last release branch with support for 32-bit Windows. Updates will no longer be available after May 22, 2024 for that platform. Issue 17779
If you’re running Wireshark on macOS and upgraded to macOS 13 from an earlier version, you will likely have to open and run the “Uninstall ChmodBPF” package, then open and run “Install ChmodBPF” in order to reset the ChmodBPF Launch Daemon. Issue 18734.
Bug Fixes
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
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wnpa-sec-2023-09 RPCoRDMA dissector crash. Issue 18852. CVE-2023-1992.
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wnpa-sec-2023-10 LISP dissector large loop. Issue 18900. CVE-2023-1993.
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wnpa-sec-2023-11 GQUIC dissector crash Issue 18947. CVE-2023-1994.
The following bugs have been fixed:
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Wireshark ITS Dissector RTCMEM wrong protocol version selector 2 - should use 1 Issue 18862.
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Wireshark treats the letter E in SSRC as an exponential representation of a number Issue 18879.
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VNC RRE Parser skips over data Issue 18883.
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Fuzz job crash output: fuzz-2023-03-27-7564.pcap Issue 18934.
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Fuzz job crash output: fuzz-2023-03-31-6903.pcap Issue 18947.
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RTP analysis shows incorrect timestamp error when timestamp is rolled over Issue 18973.
New and Updated Features
New Protocol Support
There are no new protocols in this release.
Updated Protocol Support
DNS, ERF, FF, genl, GQUIC, GSM A-bis OML, HL7, IEEE 802.11, ITS, ITS, LISP, netlink, netlink-netfilter, netlink-sock_diag, nl80211, RLC, RPCoRDMA, RTPS, SCTP, SMB, VNC, and WCP
New and Updated Capture File Support
Netmon and NetScaler
New File Format Decoding Support
There is no new or updated file format 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 or tshark -G 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 issue tracker.
How You Can Help
The Wireshark Foundation helps as many people as possible understand their networks as much as possible. You can find out more and donate at wiresharkfoundation.org.
Frequently Asked Questions
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.