Wireshark 1.8.1 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-2012-11

       The PPP dissector could crash. (Debian bug 680056) -->

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.13, 1.6.0 to 1.6.8, 1.8.0.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-12

       The NFS dissector could use excessive amounts of CPU. (Bug
       7436)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.13, 1.6.0 to 1.6.8, 1.8.0.

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     o Wireshark crashes on bootp filter. (Bug 7391)

     o Wireshark > 1.4 does not correctly read Association ID for PS
       Poll packets. (Bug 7429)

     o Radius-EAP broken since 1.8.0 release. (Bug 7430)

     o SNMP incorrectly marks SNMPv3 "discovery" packet as malformed.
       (Bug 7438)

     o Widgets are not properly expanded in GTK3. (Bug 7377)

     o Find Next Mark duplicated on Edit Menu. (Bug 7445)

     o DVB-CI/CI+: fix offset error in operator_info apdu. (Bug 7468)

     o Unable to correctly identify IEC 61850 MMS packets. (Bug 7488)

     o WinPcap doesn't install if vcredist_x64 requires reboot. (Bug
       7507)

  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

   BACapp, BOOTP, DCERPC SPOOLSS, DVB-CI, H.248, IEEE 802.11,
   Jmirror, NAS EPS, NFS, PPP, RELOAD Framing, SES, SNMP, XMPP

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   Microsoft Network Monitor

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

   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.
