# Wireshark &WiresharkCurrentVersion; Release Notes

## 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.

- wnpa-sec-2012-08

  Infinite and large loops in the ANSI MAP, BACapp, Bluetooth HCI, IEEE 802.3, LTP, and R3 dissectors have been fixed. Discovered by Laurent Butti.

  (Bugs 7118, 7119, 7121, 7122, 7124, 7125)

  Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.12, 1.6.0 to 1.6.7.

- wnpa-sec-2012-09

  The DIAMETER dissector could try to allocate memory improperly and crash. (Bug 7138)

  Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.12, 1.6.0 to 1.6.7.

- wnpa-sec-2012-10

  Wireshark could crash on SPARC processors due to misaligned memory. Discovered by Klaus Heckelmann. (Bug 7221)

  Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.12, 1.6.0 to 1.6.7.

The following bugs have been fixed:

- User-Password - PAP decoding passwords longer than 16 bytes. (Bug 6779)

- Wireshark error message for failure to open an rpcap: URL for a remote device is malformed. (Bug 6922)

- Wireshark doesn't calculate the right IPv4 destination using source routing options when bad options precede them. (Bug 7043)

- Wrong values in DNS CERT RR. (Bug 7130)

### 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

ANSI MAP, BACapp, Bluetooth HCI, DIAMETER, DNS, IPv4, RADIUS

### New and Updated Capture File Support

5View, pcap-ng

## 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.