Wireshark 1.6.12 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 vulnerability has been fixed.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-31

       The USB dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 7787)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.3, 1.6.0 to 1.6.11.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-35

       The ISAKMP dissector could crash. (Bug 7855)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.3, 1.6.0 to 1.6.11.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-36

       The iSCSI dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 7858)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.3, 1.6.0 to 1.6.11.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-37

       The WTP dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 7869)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.3, 1.6.0 to 1.6.11.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-38

       The RTCP dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 7879)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.3, 1.6.0 to 1.6.11.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-40

       The ICMPv6 dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug
       7844)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.3, 1.6.0 to 1.6.11.

   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 Menu and Title bars inaccessible using GTK2 (non-legacy) with
       two monitors. (Bug 553)

     o 802.11 Probe Response fails to parse. (Bug 1284)

     o Corrupted tpncp.dat file that crashes Wireshark. (Bug 6665)

     o SMB 2.x Read Request parsing is wrong starting at Channel.
       (Bug 7790)

     o Dissection of IEEE 802.11 Channel Switch Announcement element
       fails. (Bug 7797)

     o Invalid memory accesses when loading radius captures. (Bug
       7803)

     o ISUP CIC should have format BASE_DEC, not BASE_HEX. (Bug 7848)

     o Error in AUXILIARY SECURITY HEADER Parsing for 802.15.4 in
       dissect_ieee802154_common function. (Bug 7864)

     o When cancelling creation of new coloring rule, old one is
       deleted. (Bug 7913)

     o Misspelling (typo) in IPv6 display filter field name. (Bug
       8006)

     o Core dumped during sctp association analysis. (Bug 8011)

  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

   FMP/NOTIFY, ICMPv6, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4, ISAKMP, iSCSI,
   ISUP, NDPS, Prism, RADIUS, RTCP, SMB2, TPNCP, USB, WTP

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   CommView NCF

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 libsmi. (Win64
   development page)

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

   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 when
   displayed as a custom column. (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.
