Software Update: Wireshark 1.6.8

Wireshark version 1.6.8 has been released. Wireshark is an open source protocol analyzer and packet niffer, which can analyze various data packets and network protocols on the network. The program can also use previously saved data traffic as input. Wireshark runs on Windows XP and above, Linux, and Mac OS X, with separate downloads for 32bit and 64bit versions of the operating systems. The changelog does contain some important bug fixes.

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

• wnpa-sec-2012-08 Infinite and large loops in the ANSI MAP, ASF, BACapp, Bluetooth HCI, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.3, LTP, and R3 dissectors have been fixed. (bugs 6805, 7118, 7119, 7120, 7121, 7122, 7124, 7125) CVE-2012-2392
• wnpa-sec-2012-09 The DIAMETER dissector could try to allocate memory improperly and crash. (Bug 7138) CVE-2012-2393
• wnpa-sec-2012-10 Wireshark could crash on SPARC processors due to misaligned memory. (Bug 7221) CVE-2012-2394

The following bugs have been fixed:

• User-Password – PAP decoding passwords longer than 16 bytes. (Bug 6779)
• The MSISDN is not seen correctly in GTP packet. (Bug 7042)
• Wireshark doesn’t calculate the right IPv4 destination using source routing options when bad options precede them. (Bug 7043)
• BOOTP dissector issue with DHCP option 82 – suboption 9. (Bug 7047)
• MPLS dissector in 1.6.7 and 1.7.1 misdecodes some MPLS CW packets. (Bug 7089)
• ANSI MAP infinite loop. (Bug 7119)
• HCIEVT infinite loop. (Bug 7122)
• Wireshark doesn’t decode NFSv4.1 operations. (Bug 7127)
• LTP infinite loop. (Bug 7124)
• Wrong values ​​in DNS CERT RR. (Bug 7130)
• Megaco parser problem with LF in header. (Bug 7198)
• OPC UA byte string node id decoding is wrong. (Bug 7226)

Updated Protocol Support

• ANSI MAP
• ASF
• BACapp
• Bluetooth HCI
• DHCP
• DIAMETER
• DNS
• GTP
• IEEE 802.11
• IEEE 802.3
• IPv4
• LTP
• Megaco
• MPLS
• NFS
• OPC UA
• RADIUS

New and Updated Capture File Support

• 5View
• CSIDS
• pcap
• pcap-ng

The following downloads are available:
Wireshark 1.6.8 for Windows (32bit)
Wireshark 1.6.8 for Windows (64bit)
Wireshark 1.6.8 for Windows (U3 version)
Wireshark 1.6.8 for PortableApps
Wireshark 1.6.8 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel, 32bit)
Wireshark 1.6.8 for Mac OS X 10.5 (PPC, 32bit)
Wireshark 1.6.8 for Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel, 64bit)
Wireshark 1.6.8 source code for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD among others