Wireshark 2.0.4 Open-Source Network Security Analysis Tool Brings Over 30 Fixes

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Wireshark 2.0.4 released

 

Wireshark, the world's most popular, open-source, cross-platform, and free network protocol analyzer software, which is being used by many security experts for analysis and troubleshooting of network issues, has been updated to version 2.0.4.

Wireshark 2.0.4 is the fourth maintenance update to the 2.0 series of the application, and it comes one and a half months after the release of Wireshark 2.0.3, promising to patch a total of nine security vulnerabilities, as well as to address over 30 bugs that have been reported by the community since the previous point release.

According to the release notes, crashes have been fixed in the Toshiba file parser, CoSine file parser, NetScreen file parser, IEEE 802.11 dissector, UMTS FP dissector, Ethernet dissector, as well as some USB dissectors. The entire list of bug fixed can be studied at the end of the article, and it looks like the Windows installer now compiles with Microsoft's Authenticode policy.

"Windows installers and PortableApps packages are dual signed using SHA-1 and SHA-256 in order to comply with Microsoft Authenticode policy. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users should ensure that update 3123479 is installed. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 users should ensure that hotfix 2763674 is installed," reads today's announcement.

Updated protocol and file capture support

As expected, the new Wireshark 2.0.4 maintenance release updates the built-in protocol support for IPv4, IEEE 802.11, ICMPv6, Ethernet, NFS, AFS, GSM A RR, ANSI IS-637 A, DCERPC SPOOLS, BACapp, LPADm, BT BNEP, SMB, Cisco FabricPath MiM, USB, UMTS FP, CSN.1, OpenFlow, DIS, TZSP, MRCPv2, JXTA, ISUP, LAPSat, J1939, STT, SGsAP, and LTE-RRC.

Last but not least, the Toshiba, Aethra, Catapult DCT2000, iSeries, CoSine, VMS TCPIPtrace, DBS Etherwatch, ERF, NetScreen, and Ixia IxVeriWave capture file formats have been updated and are fully supported by Wireshark. Download Wireshark is 2.0.4 right now.

Wireshark 2.0.4 Changelog:

Saving pcap capture file with ERF encapsulation creates an invalid pcap file. (Bug 3606)
Questionable calling of Ethernet dissector by encapsulating protocol dissectors. (Bug 9933)
Wireshark 1.12.0 does not dissect HTTP correctly. (Bug 10335)
Don’t copy details of hidden columns. (Bug 11788)
RTP audio player crashes. (Bug 12166)
Crash when saving RTP audio Telephony→RTP→RTP Streams→Analyze→Save→Audio. (Bug 12211)
Edit - preferences - add column field not showing dropdown for choices. (Bug 12321)
Using _ws.expert in a filter can cause a crash. (Bug 12335)
Crash in SCCP dissector UAT (Qt UI only). (Bug 12364)
J1939 frame without data = malformed packet ? (Bug 12366)
The stream number in tshark’s "-z follow,tcp,<stream number>" option is 0-origin rather than 1-origin. (Bug 12383)
IP Header Length display filter should show calculated value. (Bug 12387)
Multiple file radio buttons should be check boxes. (Bug 12388)
Wrong check for getaddrinfo and gethostbyname on Solaris 11. (Bug 12391)
ICMPv6 dissector doesn’t respect actual packet length. (Bug 12400)
Format DIS header timestamp mm:ss.nnnnnn. (Bug 12402)
RTP Stream Analysis can no longer be sorted in 2.0.3. (Bug 12405)
RTP Stream Analysis fails to complete in 2.0.3 when packets are sliced. (Bug 12406)
Network-Layer Name Resolution uses first 32-bits of IPv6 DNS address as IPv4 address in some circumstances. (Bug 12412)
BACnet decoder incorrectly flags a valid APDU as a "Malformed Packet". (Bug 12422)
Valid ISUP messages marked with warnings. (Bug 12423)
Profile command line switch "-C" not working in Qt interface. (Bug 12425)
MRCPv2: info column not showing info correctly. (Bug 12426)
Diameter: Experimental result code 5142. (Bug 12428)
Tshark crashes when analyzing RTP due to pointer being freed not allocated. (Bug 12430)
NFS: missing information in getattr for supported exclusive create attributes. (Bug 12435)
Ethernet type field with a value of 9100 is shown as "Unknown". (Bug 12441)
Documentation does not include support for Windows Server 2012 R2. (Bug 12455)
Column preferences ruined too easily. (Bug 12465)
SMB Open andX extended response decoded incorrectly. (Bug 12472)
SMB NtCreate andX with extended response sometimes incorrect. (Bug 12473)
Viewing NFSv3 Data, checking SRTs doesn’t work. (Bug 12478)
Make wireshark with Qt enabled buildable on ARM. (Bug 12483)

 

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