Software Update: Wireshark 1.2.5

Version 1.2.5 of Wireshark was released last week. Wireshark is an open source protocol analyzer and packet sniffer, which can analyze and parse various network protocols and data packets on the network. The program can also use previously saved data traffic as input. Version 1.2.0, among other things, introduced separate downloads for 64-bit versions of Windows, added support for the c-ares resolver library and improved support for Mac OS X. In this update, the developers have made some bug fixes, among other things. . The full release notes can be found below:

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

• The Daintree SNA file parser could overflow a buffer. (Bug 4294)
  Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.4
• The SMB and SMB2 dissectors could crash. (Bug 4301)
  Versions affected: 0.9.0 to 1.2.4
• The IPMI dissector could crash on Windows. (Bug 4319)
  Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.4

The following bugs have been fixed:

• Wireshark does not graph rtp streams. (Bug 3801)
• Wireshark showing extraneous data in a TCP stream. (Bug 3955)
• Wrong decoding or gtp.target identification. (Bug 3974)
• TTE dissector bug. (Bug 4247)
• Upper case in Lua pref symbol causes Wireshark to crash. (Bug 4255)
• OpenBSD 4.5 build fails at epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c. (Bug 4258)
• Incorrect display of stream data using “Follow tcp stream” option. (Bug 4288)
• Custom RADIUS dictionary can cause a crash. (Bug 4316)

Updated Protocol Support

• DAP
• eDonkey
• GTP
• IPMI
• MIP
• RADIUS
• RANAP
• SMB
• SMB2
• TCP
• TTE
• VNC
• X.509sat

Updated Capture File Support

• Daintree SNA.

The following downloads are available:
Wireshark 1.2.5 for Windows (32bit)
Wireshark 1.2.5 for Windows (64bit)
Wireshark 1.2.5 for Windows (U3 version)
Wireshark 1.2.5 for PortableApps
Wireshark 1.2.5 for Mac OS X (Intel)
Wireshark 1.2.5 for Mac OS X (PPC)
Wireshark 1.2.5 source code for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD among others