Wireshark 2.6.17 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

     • wnpa-sec-2020-08[1] The NFS dissector could crash. Bug 16476[2].

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     • PVS-Studio analyser long list of issues. Bug 16335[3].

     • pcapng file dissector incorrectly computes nanoseconds from
       timestamps because it assumes the resolution is in nanoseconds.
       Bug 16440[4].

     • Read of uninitialized memory in detect_camins_file. Bug 16458[5].

     • Read of uninitialized memory in lanalyzer_read_trace_record. Bug
       16459[6].

     • capinfos "Capture duration" output is truncated if there are more
       than 11 digits of seconds and fractions of a second. Bug
       16519[7].

     • MIME Files Format/pcapng: Simple Packet Block parsed incorrectly.
       Bug 16526[8].

     • Buildbot crash output: fuzz-2020-05-13-12195.pcap. Bug 16564[9].

  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

   AoE, APRS, ASN.1 BER, FTP, GSM SMS, Infiniband, ISObus VT, MAC LTE,
   NFS, ONC RPC, OSC, pcapng, PDCP LTE, RADIUS, RLC LTE, SDP, SIP,
   Snort, and STUN

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   Camins, Catapult DCT 2000, Lanalyzer, and MPEG

  New and Updated Capture Interfaces support

   There is no new or updated capture file support in this release.

 Getting Wireshark

  Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
  https://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[10] 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

  The BER dissector might infinitely loop. Bug 1516[11].

  Capture filters aren’t applied when capturing from named pipes. Bug
  1814[12].

  Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works. Bug
  2234[13].

  Application crash when changing real-time option. Bug 4035[14].

  Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
  Bug 4985[15].

  Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. Bug
  10488[16].

 Getting Help

  Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site[17] 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[18].

 Frequently Asked Questions

  A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[19].

  Last updated 2020-05-19 18:16:26 UTC

 References

   1. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-08
   2. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16476
   3. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16335
   4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16440
   5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16458
   6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16459
   7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16519
   8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16526
   9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16564
  10. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
  11. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
  12. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
  13. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
  14. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
  15. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
  16. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10488
  17. https://ask.wireshark.org/
  18. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
  19. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html
