Wireshark 1.8.8 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-2013-32

       The CAPWAP dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti.
       (Bug 8725)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.7, 1.6.0 to 1.6.15.

     o wnpa-sec-2013-33

       The GMR-1 BCCH dissector could crash. Discovered by Sylvain
       Munaut and Laurent Butti. (Bug 7664, Bug 8726 )

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.7.

     o wnpa-sec-2013-34

       The PPP dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti.
       (Bug 7880, Bug 8727 )

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.7.

     o wnpa-sec-2013-35

       The NBAP dissector could crash. (Bug 8697)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.7.

     o wnpa-sec-2013-36

       The RDP dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti
       (Bug 8729)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.7.

     o wnpa-sec-2013-37

       The GSM CBCH dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent
       Butti (Bug 8730)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.7.

     o wnpa-sec-2013-38

       The Assa Abloy R3 dissector could consume excessive memory and
       CPU. (Bug 8764)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.7.

     o wnpa-sec-2013-39

       The HTTP dissector could overrun the stack. (Bug 8733)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.7, 1.6.0 to 1.6.15.

     o wnpa-sec-2013-40

       The Ixia IxVeriWave file parser could overflow the heap.
       Discovered by Sachin Shinde. (Bug 8760)

       Versions affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.7.

     o wnpa-sec-2013-41

       The DCP ETSI dissector could crash. (Bug 8717)

       Versions affected: 1.10.0, 1.8.0 to 1.8.7, 1.6.0 to 1.6.15.

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     o TRY_TO_FAKE_THIS_ITEM disables bounds errors. (Bug 3290)

     o Multiple expert info in a packet does not cause the most
       "severe" to be displayed in expert column. (Bug 7733)

     o tshark -z io,stat reports bad byte counts if filter doesn't
       match anything. (Bug 8066)

     o Add decryption for WPA eapol 4-way handshake. (Bug 8680)

     o wireshark is crashing while attempting to use 'SCTP' ->
       'Prepare Filter for this Association'. (Bug 8731)

     o Crash analyzing VoIP Calls (T38). (Bug 8736)

     o IMAP Dissector, Missing byte. (Bug 8739)

     o C12.22 Invocation Id shows negative sometimes. (Bug 8744)

     o gsm_a_dtap dissector (SMS): under certain conditions fillbits
       may be displayed for an alphanumeric TP-Originating-Address.
       (Bug 8756)

     o TETRA dissector assertion. (Bug 8768)

     o Mark retransmitted SYN and FIN packets as retransmissions.

  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

   Bittorrent DHT, C12.22, CAPWAP, DCP ETSI, EAPOL, GMR-1 BCCH, GSM
   CBCH, GSM SMS, HTTP, IMAP, NBAP, PPP, R3, RDP, SGsAP, T.38, TETRA

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   Ixia IxVeriWave.

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.
