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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] [ANNOUNCE] WinPcap 4.1.2 has been released

From: "Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:00:54 -0700
As of now, WinPcap 4.1.2 is available in the download section of the
WinPcap website, http://www.winpcap.org/

This release fixes a couple of bugs in the WinPcap driver that could
cause an OS crash. It also disables some tracing messages that were
mistakenly printed by the driver.

Full details of the changes can be found in the change log below.

Gianluca Varenni
WinPcap Team


Changelog from WinPcap 4.1.1
============================

- Bug fixing:
 + Fixed a bug reported by Boaz Brickner (http://pcapdotnet.codeplex.com/):
   the driver could cause an OS crash when an IRP_MJ_CLEANUP is processed
   in parallel with an IRP_MJ_READ/WRITE/DEVICECONTROL. The fix defers the
   deallocation of the open structure in IRP_MJ_CLOSE.
 + Fixed a bug in the buffered write code. A malformed transmit buffer sent
   with pcap_sendqueue_transmit could cause a buffer overflow and crash the
   OS.
 + Disabled tracing in the driver (it was left on by mistake in the
   previous release of WinPcap).
 + Added the missing export pcap_free_datalinks.
 + Do not show the installation panel with the OS info.
 + Small fix to the documentation regarding WDK.