Wireshark 1.4.5 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 The NFS dissector could crash on Windows. (Bug 5209)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.4.

     o The X.509if dissector could crash. (Bug 5754, Bug 5793)

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.15 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.4.

     o Paul Makowski from SEI/CERT discovered that the DECT dissector
       could overflow a buffer. He verified that this could allow
       remote code execution on many platforms.

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.4.

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     o Cygwin make fails after updating to bash v 4.1.9.2

     o Export HTTP > All - System Appears Hung (but isn't). (Bug
       1671)

     o Some HTTP responses don't decode with TCP reassembly on. (Bug
       3785)

     o Wireshark crashes when cancelling a large sort operation. (Bug
       5189)

     o Wireshark crashes if SSL preferences RSA key is actually a DSA
       key. (Bug 5662)

     o tshark incorrectly calculates TCP stream for some syn packets.
       (Bug 5743)

     o Wireshark not able to decode the PPP frame in a sflow
       (RFC3176) flow sample packet because Wireshark incorrectly
       read the protocol in PPP frame header. (Bug 5746)

     o Mysql protocol dissector: all fields should be little endian.
       (Bug 5759)

     o Error when opening snoop from Juniper SSG-140. (Bug 5762)

     o svnversion: command not found. (Bug 5798)

     o capinfos: #ifdef HAVE_LIBGCRYPT block includes a line too
       many. (Bug 5803)

     o Value of TCP segment data cannot be copied. (Bug 5811)

     o proto_field_is_referenced() is not exported in
       libwireshark.dll. (Bug 5816)

     o Wireshark ver. 1.4.4 not displayed "Granted QoS" field in a
       A11 packet. (Bug 5822)

  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

   HTTP, LDAP, MySQL, NFS, sFlow, SSL, TCP

  New and Updated Capture File Support

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 the same libraries
   as the 32-bit installer. (Bug 3610)

   Hex pane display issue after startup. (Bug 4056)

   Packet list rows are oversized. (Bug 4357)

   Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained. (Bug
   4445)

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.
