Wireshark 1.8.3 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-2012-26
The HSRP dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 7581)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.2.
CVE-2012-5237
o wnpa-sec-2012-27
The PPP dissector could abort. (Bug 7316, bug 7668)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.2.
CVE-2012-5238
o wnpa-sec-2012-28
Martin Wilck discovered an infinite loop in the DRDA
dissector. (Bug 7666)
Versions affected: 1.6.0 to 1.6.10, 1.8.0 to 1.8.2.
CVE-2012-5239
o wnpa-sec-2012-29
Laurent Butti discovered a buffer overflow in the LDP
dissector. (Bug 7567)
Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.2.
CVE-2012-5240
The following bugs have been fixed:
o The HTTP dissector does not reassemble headers when the first
TCP segment does not contain a full header line.
o HDCP2 uses the wrong protocol id.
o Several I/O graph problems have been fixed.
o No markers show up when maps are displayed. (Bug 5016)
o Assertion when using tshark/wireshark on large captures. (Bug
5699)
o Volume label field of "SMB/TRANS2-QUERY_FS_INFO/InfoVolume
level" reply packet is not displayed correctly due alignment
issue. (Bug 5778)
o 64-bit Wireshark appears to hit 2-Gbyte memory limit on 64-bit
Windows. (Bug 5979)
o Truncated/partial JPEG files are not dissected. (Bug 6230)
o Support for MPLS Packet Loss and Delay Measurement, RFC 6374.
(Bug 6881)
o Memory leak in voip_calls.c. (Bug 7320)
o When listing protocols available for "Decode As", plugins are
sorted after built-ins. (Bug 7348)
o Hidden columns should not be printed when printing packet
summary line. (Bug 7356)
o Size wrong in "File Set List" for just-finished captures. (Bug
7370)
o Error: no dependency information found for
debian/wireshark-common/usr/lib/wireshark/libwsutil.so.2 (used
by debian/wireshark/usr/bin/wireshark). (Bug 7408)
o Parse and properly display LTE RADIUS AVP
3GPP-User-Location-Info. (Bug 7474)
o [PATCH] HomeplugAV dissector: decode device id. (Bug 7548)
o BACnet GetEnrollmentSummary-ACK does not decode correctly.
(Bug 7556)
o epan/dissectors/packet-per.c
dissect_per_constrained_integer_64b fails for 64 bits. (Bug
7624)
o New SCTP PPID 48. (Bug 7635)
o dissector of Qos attribute "Reliability Class" in GMM/SM
message. (Bug 7670)
o Performance regression i
n tshark -z io,stat. (Bug 7674)
o Incorrect io-stat table format when unsupported "-t" operand
is specified and when using AVG of relative_time fields. (Bug
7685)
o IEEE 802.11 TKIP dissection : wrong IS_TKIP macro. (Bug 7691)
o Homeplug AV dissectors does not properly dissect short frames.
(Bug 7707)
o mm_context_nas_dl_cnt and mm_context_nas_ul_cnt are not
dissected properly in ContextResponse message in Gtpv2. (Bug
7718)
o This trace causes Wireshark to crash when VoIP Calls selected.
(Bug 7724)
o Some diameter Gx enumerations are missing values or value is
incorrect. (Bug 7727)
o Wireshark 1.8.2 is only displaying 2 filters from the
drop-down menu even when preferences are set to higher
integer. (Bug 7731)
o BGP bad decoding for Graceful Restart Capability with only
helper support & for Enhanced Route Refresh Capability. (Bug
7734)
o Dissection error of D-RELEASE and D-CONNECT in TETRA
dissector. (Bug 7736)
o DND can cause Wireshark to crash. (Bug 7744)
o SCSI: WRITE BUFFER fields always display as zero. (Bug 7753)
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
ASN.1 PER, BACnet, BGP, DIAMETER, DRDA, DVB CI, DVB, GSM
Management, GTP, GTPv2, HDCP2, HomePlug AV, ICMP, ICMPv6, IEEE
802.11, IEEE 802a, Interlink, JPEG, LDP, LPP, MPEG, MPLS, PCAP,
PPP, RANAP, RRC, RRLP, SCCP, SCSI, SCTP, SDP, SMB, TETRA
New and Updated Capture File Support
There are no file format updates in this release.
Getting Wireshark
Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
https://www.doczj.com/doc/c59898398.html,/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
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)
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.
Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
Wireshark University.
Frequently Asked Questions
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.