Version 3.6.1 of the open source protocol analyzer and packet niffer Wireshark has been released, a development version. With this program, various data packets and network protocols on the network can be analyzed. Also, the program can 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 changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements:
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
- wnpa-sec-2021-17 RTMPT dissector infinite loop. Issue 17745† CVE-2021-4185†
- wnpa-sec-2021-18 BitTorrent DHT dissector infinite loop. Issue 17754† CVE-2021-4184†
- wnpa-sec-2021-19 pcapng file parser crash. Issue 17755† CVE-2021-4183†
- wnpa-sec-2021-20 RFC 7468 file parser infinite loop. Issue 17801† CVE-2021-4182†
- wnpa-sec-2021-21 Sysdig Event dissector crash. CVE-2021-4181†
- wnpa-sec-2021-22 Kafka dissector infinite loop. Issue 17811†
The following bugs have been fixed:
- Allow sub-second timestamps in hexdumps Issue 15562†
- GRPC: An unnecessary empty Protobuf tree item is displayed if the GRPC message body length is 0 Issue 17675†
- Can’t install “ChmodBPF.pkg” or “Add Wireshark to the system path.pkg” on M1 MacBook Air Monterey without Rosetta 2 Issue 17757†
- TECMP: LIN Payload is cut off by 1 byte Issue 17760†
- Wireshark crashes if a 64 bit field of type BASE_CUSTOM is applied as a column Issue 17762†
- Command line option “-o console.log.level” causes wireshark and tshark to exit on start Issue 17763†
- Setting WIRESHARK_LOG_LEVEL=debug breaks interface capture Issue 17764†
- Unable to build without tshark Issue 17766†
- IEEE 802.11 action frames are not getting parsed and always seen as malformed Issue 17767†
- IEC 60870-5-101 link address field is 1 byte, but should have configurable length of 0,1 or 2 bytes Issue 17775†
- dfilter: ‘tcp.port not in {1}’ crashes Wireshark Issue 17785†
New and Updated Features
The ‘console.log.level’ preference was removed in Wireshark 3.6.0. This release adds an ‘-o console.log.level:’ backward-compatibilty option on the CLI that maps to the new logging sub-system. Note that this does not have bitmask semantics and does not correspond to any actual preference. It is just a transition mechanism for users that were relying on this CLI option and will be removed in the future. To see the new diagnostic output options consult the manpages or the output of ‘–help’.
Updated Protocol Support
- ANSI AI/F
- AT
- BitTorrent DHT
- FF
- GRPC
- IEC 101/104
- IEEE 802.11
- IEEE 802.11 Radio Tap
- IPsec
- kafka
- QUIC
- RTMPT
- RTSP
- SRVLOC
- Sysdig Event
- TECMP
New and Updated Capture File Support
- BLF
- RFC 7468
The following downloads are available:
Wireshark 3.6.1 for Windows (32bit)
Wireshark 3.6.1 for Windows (64bit)
Wireshark 3.6.1 for PortableApps
Wireshark 3.6.1 for macOS 10.12 and above (64bit)
Wireshark 3.6.1 source code for Linux, Solaris and *BSD among others
| Version number | 3.6.1 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, BSD, macOS, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows 11 |
| Website | Wireshark Foundation |
| Download | |
| License type | Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.) |