Wireshark, World’s Most Popular Network Analyzer, Receives Numerous Improvements in Recent Update
Wireshark, the world’s most popular free network protocol analyzer software, has been updated recently to version 1.12.4, a release that introduces a large number of improvements, addresses lots of bugs, updated protocol support, as well as new and updated capture file support.
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Wireshark 1.12.4 patches six security vulnerabilities that have been discovered since the previous version of the software, Wireshark 1.12.3. These were mostly related to the dissectors, including WCP, WCP dissector, LLDP, SCSI OSD, and TNEF. Numerous bugs have been fixed in Wireshark 1.12.4. Among them, we can mention incorrect parsing of IPv6 mobility header link layer address, IPv6 mobility header link-layer address mobility option, and DNS NXT RR, a "Telephony?SCTP?Analyse This Association" crash, as well as incorrect parsing of authentication data and mobility SPI by the IPv6 AUTH mobility option. Full Story |
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