Software Update: Wireshark 1.10.6

Version 1.10.6 of the open source protocol analyzer and packet niffer Wireshark has been released. With this program, various data packets and network protocols on the network can be analyzed. The program can also use previously saved data traffic as input. Wireshark runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X, with separate downloads for 32bit and 64bit versions of the operating systems. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed

• wnpa-sec-2014-01: The NFS dissector could crash. (Bug 9672) CVE-2014-2281
• wnpa-sec-2014-02: The M3UA dissector could crash. (Bug 9699) CVE-2014-2282
• wnpa-sec-2014-03: The RLC dissector could crash. (Bug 9730) CVE-2014-2283
• wnpa-sec-2014-04: The MPEG file parser could overflow a buffer. (Bug 9843) CVE-2014-2299

The following bugs have been fixed

• Customized OUI is not recognized correctly during dissection. (Bug 9122)
• Properly decode CAPWAP Data Keep-Alives. (Bug 9165)
• Build failure with GTK 3.10 – GTK developers have gone insane. (Bug 9340)
• SIGSEGV/SIGABRT during free of TvbRange using a chained dissector in lua. (Bug 9483)
• MPLS dissector no longer registers itself in “ppp.protocol” table. (Bug 9492)
• Tshark doesn’t display the longer data fields (mbtcp). (Bug 9572)
• DMX-CHAN disector does not clear strbuf between rows. (Bug 9598)
• Dissector bug, protocol SDP: proto.c:4214: failed assertion “length >= 0”. (Bug 9633)
• False error: capture file appears to be damaged or corrupt. (Bug 9634)
• SMPP field source_telematics_id field length different from spec. (Bug 9649)
• Lua: bitop library is missing in Lua 5.2. (Bug 9720)
• GTPv1-C / MM Context / Authentication quintuplet / RAND is not correct. (Bug 9722)
• Lua: ProtoField.new() is buggy. (Bug 9725)
• Lua: ProtoField.bool() VALUESTRING argument is not optional but was supposed to be. (Bug 9728)
• Problem with CAPWAP Wireshark Dissector. (Bug 9752)
• nas-eps dissector: CS Service notification dissection stops after Paging identity IE. (Bug 9789)

New and Updated Features

• IPv4 checksum verification is now disabled by default.

Updated Protocol Support

• AppleTalk
• CAPWAP
• DMX-CHAN
• DSI
• DVB-CI
• ESS
• GTPv1
• IEEE 802a
• M3UA
• Modbus/TCP
• NAS EPS
• NFS
• OpenSafety
• SDP
• SMPP

New and Updated Capture File Support

• libpcap
• MPEG
• pcap-ng

The following downloads are available:
Wireshark 1.10.6 for Windows (32bit)
Wireshark 1.10.6 for Windows (64bit)
Wireshark 1.10.6 for Windows (U3 version)
Wireshark 1.10.6 for PortableApps
Wireshark 1.10.6 for OS X 10.5 (32bit)
Wireshark 1.10.6 for OS X 10.6 and above (64bit)
Wireshark 1.10.6 source code for Linux, Solaris and *BSD among others