Wireshark 1.2.15 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. See the security
   advisory for details and a workaround.

     o Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team
       discovered that Wireshark could free an uninitialized pointer
       while reading a malformed pcap-ng file. (Bug 5652)

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3.

       CVE-2011-0538

     o Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team
       discovered that a large packet length in a pcap-ng file could
       crash Wireshark. (Bug 5661)

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3.

     o Wireshark could overflow a buffer while reading a Nokia DCT3
       trace file. (Bug 5661)

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3.

       CVE-2011-0713

     o joernchen of Phenoelit discovered that the LDAP and SMB
       dissectors could overflow the stack. (Bug 5717)

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. (Prior
       versions including 1.0.x are also affected.)

     o Xiaopeng Zhang of Fortinet's Fortiguard Labs discovered that
       large LDAP Filter strings can consume excessive amounts of
       memory. (Bug 5732)

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. (Prior
       versions including 1.0.x are also affected.)

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     o Wireshark Crashing by pressing 2 Buttons. (Bug 4645)

     o Potential access violation when writing to LANalyzer files.
       (Bug 5698)

  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

   LDAP, SMB

  Updated Capture File Support

   LANalyzer, Nokia DCT3, 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. (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)

   Wireshark might freeze when reading from a pipe. (Bug 2082)

   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)

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.
