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Wireshark announcements | 11 Jan 00:07
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Wireshark 1.6.5 is now available


I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.6.5.

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-2012-01

       Laurent Butti discovered that Wireshark failed to properly
       check record sizes for many packet capture file formats. (Bug
       6663, bug 6666, bug 6667, bug 6668, bug 6669, bug 6670)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.10, 1.6.0 to 1.6.4.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-02

       Wireshark could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (Bug
       6634)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.10, 1.6.0 to 1.6.4.
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Wireshark announcements | 11 Jan 00:07
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Wireshark 1.4.11 is now available


I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.4.11.

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-2012-01

       Laurent Butti discovered that Wireshark failed to properly
       check record sizes for many packet capture file formats. (Bug
       6663, bug 6666, bug 6667, bug 6668, bug 6669, bug 6670)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.10, 1.6.0 to 1.6.4.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-02

       Wireshark could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (Bug
       6634)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.10, 1.6.0 to 1.6.4.
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Wireshark announcements | 18 Nov 22:33
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Wireshark 1.6.4 is now available

I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.6.4.

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 bugs have been fixed:

     o Patch to fix memory leaks/errors in Lua plugin. (Bug 5575)

     o Wireshark crashes if a field of type BASE_CUSTOM is applied as
       a column. (Bug 6503)

     o Filter Expression dialog can only be opened once. (Bug 6537)

     o Wireshark crashes if compiled without GLib thread support.
       (Bug 6540)

     o 80211 QoS Control: Add Raw TID. (Bug 6548)

     o SNMP length check error. (Bug 6564)

     o UCP dissector bug of operation 61. (Bug 6570)
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Wireshark announcements | 9 Nov 01:05
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Wireshark 1.7.0 is now available


I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.7.0. This is an
experimental release intended to test features that will go into
Wireshark 1.8.

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

  New and Updated Features

   The following features are new (or have been significantly
   updated) since version 1.6:

     o Wireshark supports capturing from multiple interfaces at once.

     o Wireshark, TShark, and their associated utilities now save
       files using the pcap-ng file format by default. (Your copy of
       Wireshark might still use the pcap file format if pcap-ng is
       disabled in your preferences.)

     o Decryption key management for IEEE 802.11, IPsec, and ISAKMP
       is easier.

     o OID resolution is now supported on 64-bit Windows.
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Wireshark announcements | 1 Nov 20:44
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Wireshark 1.4.10 is now available


I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.4.10.

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-2011-18

       Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of Red Hat Security Response Team
       discovered that the Infiniband dissector could dereference a
       NULL pointer. (Bug 6476)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.9, 1.6.0 to 1.6.2.

     o wnpa-sec-2011-19

       Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of Red Hat Security Response Team
       discovered a buffer overflow in the ERF file reader. (Bug
       6479)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.9, 1.6.0 to 1.6.2.
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Wireshark announcements | 1 Nov 20:44
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Wireshark 1.6.3 is now available


I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.6.3.

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-2011-17

       The CSN.1 dissector could crash. (Bug 6351)

       Versions affected: 1.6.0 to 1.6.2.

     o wnpa-sec-2011-18

       Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of Red Hat Security Response Team
       discovered that the Infiniband dissector could dereference a
       NULL pointer. (Bug 6476)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.9, 1.6.0 to 1.6.2.

     o wnpa-sec-2011-19
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Wireshark announcements | 8 Sep 19:38
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Wireshark 1.6.2 is now available


I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.6.2.

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-2011-12

       A large loop in the OpenSafety dissector could cause a crash.
       (Bug 6138)

       Versions affected: 1.6.0 to 1.6.1.

     o wnpa-sec-2011-13

       A malformed IKE packet could consume excessive resources.

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.8, 1.6.0 to 1.6.1.

       CVE-2011-3266
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Wireshark announcements | 8 Sep 19:39
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Wireshark 1.4.9 is now available


I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.4.9.

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-2011-13

       A malformed IKE packet could consume excessive resources.

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.8, 1.6.0 to 1.6.1.

       CVE-2011-3266

     o wnpa-sec-2011-14

       A malformed capture file could result in an invalid root
       tvbuff and cause a crash. (Bug 6135)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.8, 1.6.0 to 1.6.1.
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Wireshark announcements | 3 Aug 01:21
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End of Life Announcement for Wireshark 1.2

[ Note: This announcement should have been sent out in June. My
apologies for the delay. ]

Wireshark 1.2.0 was released on June 15, 2009. The 1.2.x series was the
last to support Windows 2000. This support period ended on June 30,
2011. If you are still running Wireshark 1.2 or earlier (including all
versions of Ethereal) you are encouraged to upgrade to Wireshark 1.6.

This announcement only affects the 1.2.x branch. Wireshark 1.6 will be
supported until June 6, 2013 and Wireshark 1.4 will be supported until
August 30, 2012.

For more information on Wireshark's release life cycle and policy,
please refer to the following pages on the wiki:

http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LifeCycle
http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/ReleasePolicy
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Wireshark announcements | 19 Jul 02:16
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Wireshark 1.6.1 is now available


[ This is a duplicate announcement. The original wasn't signed. ]

I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.6.1.

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 Lucent/Ascend file parser was susceptible to an infinite
       loop.

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.17, 1.4.0 to 1.4.7, and 1.6.0.

       CVE-2011-2597

     o The ANSI MAP dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop.
       (Bug 6044)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.7, and 1.6.0.
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Wireshark announcements | 19 Jul 01:18
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Wireshark 1.4.8 is now available


I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.4.8.

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 Lucent/Ascend file parser was susceptible to an infinite
       loop.

       Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.17, 1.4.0 to 1.4.7, and 1.6.0.

       CVE-2011-2597

     o The ANSI MAP dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop.
       (Bug 6044)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.7, and 1.6.0.

   The following bugs have been fixed:
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