Publisher's Description:
From Wireshark development team
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998.
Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:
* Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
* Live capture and offline analysis
* Standard three-pane packet browser
* Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
* Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
* The most powerful display filters in the industry
* Rich VoIP analysis
* Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
* Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
* Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platfrom)
* Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
* Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
* Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text
Changelog for this release:
Bug Fixes
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed.
wnpa-sec-2012-01
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.
wnpa-sec-2012-02
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.
wnpa-sec-2012-03
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)
Incorrect time differences displayed with time reference set. (Bug 5580)
Wrong packet type association of SNMP trap after TFTP transfer. (Bug 5727)
SSL/TLS decryption needs wireshark to be rebooted. (Bug 6032)
Export HTTP Objects -> save all crashes Wireshark. (Bug 6250)
Wireshark Netflow dissector complains there is no template found though the template is exported. (Bug 6325)
DCERPC EPM tower UUID must be interpreted always as little endian. (Bug 6368)
Crash if no recent files. (Bug 6549)
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)
Various crashes after loading NetMon2.x capture file. (Bug 6578)
Fixed compilation of dumpcap on some systems (when MUST_DO_SELECT is defined). (Bug 6614)
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)
ICMPv6 DNSSL option malformed on padding. (Bug 6660)
Wrong tvb_get_bits function call in packet-csn1.c. (Bug 6708)
[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)
Memory leaks in various dissectors.
Bytes highlighted in wrong Byte pane when field selected in Details pane.
New and Updated Features
There are no new features in this release.