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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.
Laurent Butti discovered that Wireshark failed to properly check record sizes for many packet capture file formats. (Bug 6663, bug 6666, bug 6667, bug 6668, bug 6669, bug 6670)
Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.10, 1.6.0 to 1.6.4.
Wireshark could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (Bug 6634)
Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.10, 1.6.0 to 1.6.4.
The RLC dissector could overflow a buffer. (Bug 6391)
Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.10, 1.6.0 to 1.6.4.
The following bugs have been fixed:
"Closing File!" Dialog Hangs. (Bug 3046)
Sub-fields of data field should appear in exported PDML as children of the data field instead of as siblings to it. (Bug 3809)
Patch to fix memory leaks/errors in Lua plugin. (Bug 5575)
Incorrect time differences displayed with time reference set. (Bug 5580)
Wrong packet type association of SNMP trap after TFTP transfer. (Bug 5727)
Export HTTP Objects -> save all crashes Wireshark. (Bug 6250)
Wireshark crashes if a field of type BASE_CUSTOM is applied as a column. (Bug 6503)
Filter Expression dialog can only be opened once. (Bug 6537)
80211 QoS Control: Add Raw TID. (Bug 6548)
CAPWAP dissector tries to allocate -1 bytes of memory during reassembly. (Bug 6555)
IPv6 frame containing routing header with 0 segments left calculates wrong UDP checksum. (Bug 6560)
IPv4 UDP/TCP Checksum incorrect if routing header present. (Bug 6561)
Incorrect Parsing of SCPS Capabilities Option introduced in response to bug 6194. (Bug 6562)
Add more length checks for integer values in SNMP variable bindings. (Bug 6564)
UCP dissector bug of operation 61. (Bug 6570)
Various crashes after loading NetMon2.x capture file. (Bug 6578)
SIGSEGV in SVN 40046. (Bug 6634)
Wireshark dissects TCP option 25 as an "April 1" option. (Bug 6643)
ZigBee ZCL Dissector reports invalid status. (Bug 6649)
Large packet length crashes Wireshark. (Bug 6663)
5views capture file that crashes wireshark. (Bug 6666)
i4b capture file that crashes wireshark. (Bug 6667)
iptrace capture file that crashes wireshark. (Bug 6668)
netmon2 capture file that crashes wireshark. (Bug 6669)
novell capture file that crashes wireshark. (Bug 6670)
[UDP] - Length Field of Pseudo Header while computing CheckSum is not correct. (Bug 6711)
pcapio.c: bug in libpcap_write_interface_description_block. (Bug 6719)
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 might make your system disassociate from a wireless network on OS X 10.4. (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)
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)
Hex pane display issue after startup. (Bug 4056)
Packet list rows are oversized. (Bug 4357)
Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained. (Bug 4445)
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.
Training is available from Wireshark University.
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.
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