Wireshark 2.0.2 Is a Major Release of the World’s Most Popular Network Scanner

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Available now for Linux, Mac and Windows OSes

The world's most popular network protocol analyzer, Wireshark, which security experts can use for development, analysis, troubleshooting, or education purposes, has reached version 2.0.2.

Wireshark 2.0.2 is a major release that patches a significant amount of security issues discovered since the first maintenance release, such as a DLL hijacking vulnerability, a DNP dissector infinite loop, and a SPICE dissector large loop. Additionally, multiple crashes have been addressed, in particular for the X.509AF, ASN.1 BER, HTTP/2, HiQnet, LBMC, RSL, LLRP, IEEE 802.11, GSM A-bis OML, SPICE, and NFS dissectors.

But there are also patches for crashes with the 3GPP TS 32.423 Trace, iSeries, and Ixia IxVeriWave file parsers. Furthermore, the official release notes document over 40 bugs that have been fixed in this second maintenance release of Wireshark 2.0, so we recommend taking a closer look at the changelog attached at the end of the article if you want to know exactly what has been fixed.

Updated protocols and capture file support

Besides the security patches and bug fixes mentioned above, Wireshark 2.0.2 updates a bunch of protocols, among which we can mention HTTP, HTTP/2, SSL, TCP, GSM SMS, 6LoWPAN, IPv4, IPv6, PPTP, NFS, X.509AF, EIGRP, SPICE, MAC LTE, TRILL, DOCSIS INT-RNG-REQ, NS Trace, MP2T, WaveAgent, BATADV, RPC, SNMP, HiQnet, and IKEv2.

Moreover, the IEEE 802.11, InfiniBand, RoHC, VXLAN, GSM A DTAP, M3AP, OSPF, RSL, LBMC, GTP, MPLS, PIM, DICOM, ACN, LLRP, ASN.1 BER, RLC LTE, E100, and DNP3 protocols have been updated as well, along with better support for the pcap, pcapng, 3GPP TS 32.423 Trace, Ixia IxVeriWave, and iSeries capture files.

Download Wireshark 2.0.2 directly from the project's download page.

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The changes they've made and still, it feels like they dumb down the tool a little bit for novice users.

In my opinion, new interface is bad, also the changes they made makes me wonder why they call it an advanced traffic monitoring tool?

 

And the author of this click bait article does not differentiate between, network scanner and network monitoring tool.

Nmap is a network scanner.

Wireshark is a network monitor.

[Pequi]

Wireshark is a fantastic tool, but I will only update my version 1.10 when they explain why the size went from 21 to 42 Mb.

Bug fixes ? Yes, sure.

Download page, BTW, is here, if you want to avoid all the nasty scripting:

 

https://www.wireshark.org/download/