Software Update: Wireshark 2.6.1

Version 2.6.1 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 macOS, with separate downloads for 32bit and 64bit versions of the operating systems. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s New

• The Windows installers now ship with Qt 5.9.5. Previously they shipped with Qt 5.9.4.

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

• ws-sa2018-25 – The LDSS dissector could crash. (ws-bug14615)
• ws-sa2018-26 – The IEEE 1905.1a dissector could crash. (ws-bug14647)
• ws-sa2018-27 – The RTCP dissector could crash. (ws-bug14673)
• ws-sa2018-28 – Multiple dissectors could consume excessive memory. (ws-bug14678)
• ws-sa2018-29 – The DNS dissector could crash. (ws-bug14681)
• ws-sa2018-30 – The GSM A DTAP dissector could crash. (ws-bug14688)
• ws-sa2018-31 – The Q.931 dissector could crash. (ws-bug14689)
• ws-sa2018-32 – The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash. (ws-bug14686)
• ws-sa2018-33 – Multiple dissectors could crash. (ws-bug14703)

The following bugs have been fixed:

• Qt GUI does not snap to exactly half of screen in Windows. (Bug 13516)
• Segmentation fault when switching profiles. (Bug 14316)
• QUIC dissector produces incorrect packet numbers (wrong-endian). (Bug 14462)
• Wrong default file format chosen in when saving a capture with comments added if the original format doesn’t support comments. (Bug 14601)
• Lua: Error during loading [AppData directory]:1: bad argument #1 to dofile (dofile: file does not exist). (Bug 14619)
• Crash when selecting text. (Bug 14620)
• ui/macosx directory missing from source release tarball. (Bug 14627)
• Wireshark 2.9.0 snapshot crashes/segfaults on Windows when launched with -k or -i. (Bug 14632)
• “Copy as printable text” isn’t copying non-alphanumeric characters. (Bug 14633)
• File missing from release tarball. (Bug 14634)
• NEWS is out of date and does not display properly in Notepad. (Bug 14636)
• l16mono.so is installed in the wrong place. (Bug 14638)
• Remove: HACK to support UHD’s weird header offset on data packets. (Bug 14641)
• WinSparkle 0.5.6 is out of date and buggy. (Bug 14642)
• Unable to create or open VOIP captures. (Bug 14648)
• RTMPT: incorrect dissection of multiple RTMP packets within a single TCP packet. (Bug 14650)
• Endpoints dialog displays invalid GeoIP information due to incorrect byte order. (Bug 14656)
• Qt: Crash in ShowPacketBytesDialog(). (Bug 14658)
• Statistics → Resolved addresses show IP addresses without domain. (Bug 14667)
• Erroneous MAC-LTE Dissection for Sidelink Shared Channel Packets. (Bug 14669)
• Files missing from docbook CMake file. (Bug 14676)
• Wireshark hangs when opening certain files if it’s been configured to use the new GeoIP databases. (Bug 14701)

The “Open”, “Save”, and other file dialogs should now be shown at the correct size on HiDPI Windows systems.

Updated Protocol Support

• BATADV
• BT LE LL
• CoAP
• DNS
• DTLS
• GSM A DTAP
• GSM A GM
• GTP
• GTPv2
• IEEE 1905.1a
• IEEE 802.11
• LDSS
• LwM2M-TLV
• MAC LTE
• NAS EPS
• Q.931
• RTCP
• RTMPT
• SDP
• TCP
• VITA 49

New and Updated Capture File Support

• 3GPP TS 32.423 Trace
• Android Logcat

The following downloads are available:
Wireshark 2.6.1 for Windows (32bit)
Wireshark 2.6.1 for Windows (64 bit)
Wireshark 2.6.1 for PortableApps
Wireshark 2.6.1 for macOS 10.6 and above (64bit)
Wireshark 2.6.1 source code for Linux, Solaris and *BSD among others