Wireshark 1.4.11 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.

     o 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.

     o 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.

     o 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:

     o "Closing File!" Dialog Hangs. (Bug 3046)

     o Sub-fields of data field should appear in exported PDML as
       children of the data field instead of as siblings to it. (Bug
       3809)

     o Patch to fix memory leaks/errors in Lua plugin. (Bug 5575)

     o Incorrect time differences displayed with time reference set.
       (Bug 5580)

     o Wrong packet type association of SNMP trap after TFTP
       transfer. (Bug 5727)

     o Export HTTP Objects -> save all crashes Wireshark. (Bug 6250)

     o Wireshark crashes if a field of type BASE_CUSTOM is applied as
       a column. (Bug 6503)

     o Filter Expression dialog can only be opened once. (Bug 6537)

     o 80211 QoS Control: Add Raw TID. (Bug 6548)

     o CAPWAP dissector tries to allocate -1 bytes of memory during
       reassembly. (Bug 6555)

     o IPv6 frame containing routing header with 0 segments left
       calculates wrong UDP checksum. (Bug 6560)

     o IPv4 UDP/TCP Checksum incorrect if routing header present.
       (Bug 6561)

     o Incorrect Parsing of SCPS Capabilities Option introduced in
       response to bug 6194. (Bug 6562)

     o Add more length checks for integer values in SNMP variable
       bindings. (Bug 6564)

     o UCP dissector bug of operation 61. (Bug 6570)

     o Various crashes after loading NetMon2.x capture file. (Bug
       6578)

     o SIGSEGV in SVN 40046. (Bug 6634)

     o Wireshark dissects TCP option 25 as an "April 1" option. (Bug
       6643)

     o ZigBee ZCL Dissector reports invalid status. (Bug 6649)

     o Large packet length crashes Wireshark. (Bug 6663)

     o 5views capture file that crashes wireshark. (Bug 6666)

     o i4b capture file that crashes wireshark. (Bug 6667)

     o iptrace capture file that crashes wireshark. (Bug 6668)

     o netmon2 capture file that crashes wireshark. (Bug 6669)

     o novell capture file that crashes wireshark. (Bug 6670)

     o [UDP] - Length Field of Pseudo Header while computing CheckSum
       is not correct. (Bug 6711)

     o pcapio.c: bug in libpcap_write_interface_description_block.
       (Bug 6719)

  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

   CAPWAP, HTTP, IEEE 802.11, IPv4, IPv6, RLC, SNMP, TCP, TFTP,
   ZigBee ZCL

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   Accellent 5Views, AIX iptrace, HP-UX nettl, I4B, Microsoft Network
   Monitor, Novell LANalyzer, PacketLogger, Pcap-ng, Sniffer,
   Tektronix K12, WildPackets {Airo,Ether}Peek.

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 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)

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.
