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Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education.
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for details and a workaround.
The following bugs have been fixed:
HTTP parser limits with Content-Length. (Bug 1958)
MATE dissector bug with GOGs. (Bug 3010)
Changing fonts and deleting system time from preferences, results in wireshark crash. (Bug 3387)
ERF file starting with record with timestamp=0,1 or 2 not recognized as ERF file. (Bug 4503)
The SSL dissector can not correctly resemple SSL records when the record header is spit between packets. (Bug 4535)
TCP reassembly can call subdissector with incorrect TCP sequence number. (Bug 4624)
PTP dissector displays big correction field values wrong. (Bug 4635)
MSF is at Anthorn, not Rugby. (Bug 4678)
ProtoField __tostring() description is missing in Wireshark's Lua API Reference Manual. (Bug 4695)
EVRC packet bundling not handled correctly. (Bug 4718)
Completely unresponsive when run very first time by root user. (Bug 4308)
Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from http://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
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.
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.
Wireshark may appear offscreen on multi-monitor Windows systems. (Bug 553)
Wireshark might make your system disassociate from a wireless network on OS X. (Bug 1315)
Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug 1419)
The BER dissector might infinitely loop. (Bug 1516)
Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes. (Bug 1814)
Wireshark might freeze when reading from a pipe. (Bug 2082)
Filtering tshark captures with display filters (-R) no longer works. (Bug 2234)
The 64-bit Windows installer does not ship with the same libraries as the 32-bit installer. (Bug 3610)
Community support is available on the wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives for all of Wireshark's mailing lists can be found on the web site.
Commercial support, training, and development services are available from CACE Technologies.
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.
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