What’s New

Bug Fixes

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

The following bugs have been fixed:

  • Fuzz job crash: randpkt-2026-05-22-14496207576.pcap. Issue 21266.

  • Wireshark Version 4.6.6 - File Capture Properties is excessively slow and hangs Wireshark on Windows. Issue 21337.

  • TCP Preference 'Analyze TCP sequence numbers' SEGFAULTs when toggled. Issue 21380.

  • Wireshark misdecodes S-NSSAI location validity information IE (5G NAS) Issue 21411.

  • Wireshark misdecodes NSAG information IE (5G NAS) Issue 21412.

  • Fuzz job UTF-8 encoding issue: fuzz-2026-07-17-15393056954.pcap. Issue 21419.

  • Wireshark misdecodes UE security capability IE (5G NAS) Issue 21431.

  • Wireshark misdecodes Registration wait range IE (5G NAS) Issue 21432.

  • Wireshark misdecodes Extended CAG information IE (5G NAS) Issue 21433.

  • Stack buffer overflow in K12/RF5 writer. Issue 21436.

  • Security issues fixed in 4.6.8 and 4.4.18 Tracker. Issue 21437.

  • BLF writer out-of-bounds read on truncated VLAN-tagged Ethernet frames. Issue 21441.

  • DLMS/COSEM compact-array TypeDescription recursion bypass can exhaust the stack. Issue 21442.

  • packet-knxip: Secure Wrapper size-offset causes NULL deref / SEGV when decrypting. Issue 21444.

  • wiretap/rtpdump: swapped caplen/len on truncated samples. Issue 21445.

  • H.245 returnedFunction nested GenericMessage dereferences NULL packet state. Issue 21447.

  • X.509 export-object tap dereferences missing certificate subject. Issue 21448.

  • Sniffer REC_HEADER2 error path over-reads stack buffer. Issue 21461.

  • Deep NetLog JSON nesting exhausts the native stack. Issue 21462.

  • androiddump signed btsnoop length causes global out-of-bounds read. Issue 21464.

  • ERF writer underflows payload length for tiny truncated packets. Issue 21466.

  • Wireshark misdecodes SOR transparent container IE (5G NAS) Issue 21472.

  • Unbounded Daintree timestamp fraction causes signed integer overflow. Issue 21473.

  • Wireshark misdecodes SOR-CMCI of SOR transparent container IE (5G NAS) Issue 21477.

  • Wireshark misdecodes Service level AA container (5GSM NAS) Issue 21479.

New and Updated Features

New Protocol Support

There are no new protocols in this release.

Updated Protocol Support

ANSI_TCAP, ASN.1 BER, ASTERIX, BT ATT, BT AVRCP, BT BR/EDR RF, BT HFP, C12.22, CIGI, CMS, COSEM, EBHSCR, ESS, FP, GSM SIM, GTPv2, H.245, Kerberos, KNX/IP, LBMSRS, NAS-5GS, RELOAD, Rlogin, RRC, SSH, X.509AF, and X.509IF

New and Updated Capture File Support

3gpp phone log, BLF, Busmaster, Catapult DCT2000, Daintree SNA, Endace ERF, Gammu DCT3, pcapng, RTPDump, Sniffer, Tektronix K12xx, and TTTech Computertechnik TTL

New and Updated File Format Decoding Support

There is no new or updated file format support in this release.

Plugin Development Changes

On UN*X systems (excluding macOS when running from an app bundle, as with the official installer) extcap binaries are now searched for under the libexec directory by default, e.g., /usr/libexec/wireshark/extcap instead of /usr/lib64/wireshark/extcap or similar. This is the customary place for helper binaries, which as opposed to libraries do not need multiarch support. The location can be overridden via the environment variable WIRESHARK_EXTCAP_DIR. The extcap binaries shipped with Wireshark are installed in the new location, but third party extcaps may need packaging changes. This change was effective in version 4.6.0, but was not explicitly noted in the release notes previously. Note that some distributions do not use a libexec directory, such as Alpine Linux, which does not have multilib support. On such systems extcap binaries should be in the same location as before.