Wireshark 3.6.14 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-2023-12 Candump log file parser crash. Issue 19062. CVE-2023-2855.
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wnpa-sec-2023-13 BLF file parser crash. Issue 19063. CVE-2023-2857.
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wnpa-sec-2023-14 GDSDB dissector infinite loop. Issue 19068.
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wnpa-sec-2023-15 NetScaler file parser crash. Issue 19081. CVE-2023-2858.
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wnpa-sec-2023-16 VMS TCPIPtrace file parser crash. Issue 19083. CVE-2023-2856.
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wnpa-sec-2023-19 IEEE C37.118 Synchrophasor dissector crash. Issue 19087. CVE-2023-0668.
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wnpa-sec-2023-20 XRA dissector infinite loop. Issue 19100.
The following bugs have been fixed:
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Incorrect padding in BFCP decoder Issue 18890.
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SPNEGO dissector bug Issue 18991.
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SRT values are incorrect when applying a time shift. Issue 18999.
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batadv dissector bug Issue 19047.
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[UDS] When filtering the uds.wdbi.data_identifier or uds.iocbi.data_identifier field is interpreted as 1 byte whereas it consists of 2 bytes Issue 19078.
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Wireshark can’t save this capture in that format Issue 19080.
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MSMMS parsing buffer overflow Issue 19086.
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USB HID parser shows wrong label for usages Rx/Vx/Vbrx of usage page Generic Desktop Control Issue 19095.
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"Follow → QUIC Stream" mixes data between streams. Issue 19102.
New and Updated Features
New Protocol Support
There are no new protocols in this release.
Updated Protocol Support
batadv, BFCP, CommunityID, COSE, GDSDB, ILP, ISAKMP, MSMMS, NTLMSSP, QUIC, SPNEGO, Synphasor, TCP, UDS, ULP, USB HID, and XRA
New and Updated Capture File Support
BLF, Candump, NetScaler, and VMS TCPIPtrace
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.