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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.
The TCP dissector could crash. (Bug 8274)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5.
The HART/IP dissectory could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 8360)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5.
The CSN.1 dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti. (Bug 8383)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5.
The MS-MMS dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti. (Bug 8382)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5, 1.6.0 to 1.6.13.
The MPLS Echo dissector could go into an infinite loop. Discovered by Laurent Butti. (Bug 8039)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5.
The RTPS and RTPS2 dissectors could crash. Discovered by Alyssa Milburn. (Bug 8332)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5, 1.6.0 to 1.6.13.
The Mount dissector could crash. Discovered by Alyssa Milburn. (Bug 8335)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5, 1.6.0 to 1.6.13.
The AMPQ dissector could go into an infinite loop. Discovered by Moshe Kaplan. (Bug 8337)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5, 1.6.0 to 1.6.13.
The ACN dissector could attempt to divide by zero. Discovered by Alyssa Milburn. (Bug 8340)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5, 1.6.0 to 1.6.13.
The CIMD dissector could crash. Discovered by Moshe Kaplan. (Bug 8346)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5, 1.6.0 to 1.6.13.
The FCSP dissector could go into an infinite loop. Discovered by Moshe Kaplan. (Bug 8359)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5, 1.6.0 to 1.6.13.
The RELOAD dissector could go into an infinite loop. Discovered by Even Jensen. (Bug 8364)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5.
The DTLS dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti. (Bug 8380)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.5, 1.6.0 to 1.6.13.
The following bugs have been fixed:
Lua pinfo.cols.protocol not holding value in postdissector. (Bug 6020)
data combined via ssl_desegment_app_data not visible via "Follow SSL Stream" only decrypted ssl data tabs. (Bug 6434)
HTTP application/json-rpc should be decoded/shown as application/json. (Bug 7939)
Maximum value of 802.11-2012 Duration field should be 32767. (Bug 8056)
Voice RTP player crash if player is closed while playing. (Bug 8065)
Display Filter Macros crash. (Bug 8073)
RRC RadioBearerSetup message decoding issue. (Bug 8290)
R-click filters add ! in front of field when choosing "apply as filter>selected". (Bug 8297)
BACnet - Loop Object - Setpoint-Reference property does not decode correctly. (Bug 8306)
WMM TSPEC Element Parsing is not done is wrong due to a wrong switch case number. (Bug 8320)
Incorrect RTP statistics (Lost Packets indication not ok). (Bug 8321)
Registering ieee802154 dissector for IEEE802.15.4 frames inside Linux SLL frames. (Bug 8325)
Version Field is skipped while parsing WMM_TSPEC causing wrong dissecting (1 byte offset missing) of all fields in the TSPEC. (Bug 8330)
[BACnet] UCS-2 strings longer than 127 characters do not decode correctly. (Bug 8331)
Malformed IEEE80211 frame triggers DISSECTOR_ASSERT. (Bug 8345)
Decoding of GSM MAP SMS Diagnostics. (Bug 8378)
Incorrect packet length displayed for Flight Message Transfer Protocol (FMTP). (Bug 8407)
Netflow dissector flowDurationMicroseconds nanosecond conversion wrong. (Bug 8410)
BE (3) AC is wrongly named as "Video" in (qos_acs). (Bug 8432)
ACN, AMQP, ASN.1 PER, BACnet, CIMD, CSN.1, DOCSIS TLVs, DTLS, FCSP, FMP/NOTIFY, FMTP, GSM MAP SMS, HART/IP, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4, JSON, Linux SLL, LTE RRC, Mount, MPLS Echo, Netflow, RELOAD, RSL, RTP, RTPS, RTPS2, SABP, SIP, SSL, TCP
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.
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 support Kerberos decryption. (Win64 development page)
Application crash when changing real-time option. (Bug 4035)
Hex pane display issue after startup. (Bug 4056)
Packet list rows are oversized. (Bug 4357)
Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained. (Bug 4445)
Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases. (Bug 4985)
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.
Official Wireshark training and certification are available from Wireshark University.
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.