Wireshark 1.0.4 Just Released, Download Now

(Oct 20, 2008) Wireshark 1.0.4 has been released. Installers for Windows, Mac OS X Intel 10.5, and source code is now available.

In this release

Security-related bugs in the Bluetooth ACL, Bluetooth RFCOMM, PRP, Q.931, MATE, and USB dissectors, as well as the Tammos CommView file parser have been fixed. See the advisory for details.

Many other bugs have been fixed.

What's New

Bug Fixes

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for details and a workaround.

1. Florent Drouin and David Maciejak found that the Bluetooth ACL dissector could crash or abort. (Bug 1513)

Versions affected: 0.99.2 to 1.0.3

2. The Q.931 dissector could crash or abort. (Bug 2870)

Versions affected: 0.10.3 to 1.0.3

3. Wireshark could abort while reading Tamos CommView capture files. (Bug 2926)

Versions affected: 0.99.7 to 1.0.3

4. David Maciejak found that the USB dissector could crash or abort. This led to the discovery of a similar problem in the Bluetooth RFCOMM dissector. (Bug 2922)

Versions affected: 0.99.7 to 1.0.3

5. Vivek Gupta and David Maciejak found that the PRP and MATE dissectors could make Wireshark crash. (Neither PRP nor MATE are enabled by default.) (Bug 2549)

Versions affected: 0.99.2 to 1.0.3

The following bugs have been fixed:

Let MP2T call its subdissectors, even without tree (Bug 2627)

Wireless Toolbar not enabled (using AirPcap) if PCAP_REMOTE=1 (Bug 2685)

Failure to dissect long SASL wrapped LDAP response (Bug 2687)

Fix compiler warnings (Bug 2823)

Homeplug dissection bugs (Bug 2859)

Malformed Packet DCP ETSI error (Bug 2860)

Wrong size of selected_registrar in WPS dissector (Bug 2865)

Dissector assertion displaying cookies in DTLS frames (Bug 2876)

Missing field type in documentation (Bug 2889)

Wireshark -p switch seems to have no effect to PROMISCUOUS mode (Bug 2891)

Misspelled PPI error vector magnitude filter (Bug 2903)

Modbus Function 43 Encapsulated Interface Transport decoding (Bug 2917)

Crash when printing or exporting some protocol data (Bug 2934)

Crash when selecting "Export Selected Packet Bytes" (Bug 2964)

New and Updated Features

There are no new or updated features in this release.

New Protocol Support

There are no new protocols in this release.

Updated Protocol Support

AFP, Bluetooth ACL, Bluetooth RFCOMM, DCP ETSI, DTLS, Homeplug, IEEE 802.11, IP, Modbus TCP, MP2T, NSIP, NCP, PPI, Q.931, SASL, SNMP, USB, WPS

What is Wireshark?

Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education.

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