Wireshark 1.2.17 Release Notes

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What is Wireshark?

   Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer.
   It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and
   education.

What's New

  Bug Fixes

   The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security
   advisory for details and a workaround.

     o Large/infinite loop in the DICOM dissector. (Bug 5876)

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

     o Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team
       discovered that a corrupted Diameter dictionary file could
       crash Wireshark.

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

     o Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team
       discovered that a corrupted snoop file could crash Wireshark.
       (Bug 5912)

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

     o David Maciejak of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs discovered that
       malformed compressed capture data could crash Wireshark. (Bug
       5908)

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

     o Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team
       discovered that a corrupted Visual Networks file could crash
       Wireshark. (Bug 5934)

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.16 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.6.

   The following bugs have been fixed:

  New and Updated Features

   There are no new features in this release.

  New Protocol Support

   There are no new protocols in this release.

  Updated Protocol Support

  Updated Capture File Support

   There are no capture file support updates in this release.

Getting Wireshark

   Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
   http://www.wireshark.org/download.html.

  Vendor-supplied Packages

   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.

File Locations

   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.

Known Problems

   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)

   Wireshark will not run on Windows 2000. (Bug 5874)

Getting Help

   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.

Frequently Asked Questions

   A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.
