WireShark 0.99.6 released
Gerald Combs, the creator of Ethereal®, has initiated the Wireshark network protocol analyzer project, a successor to Ethereal®. The Ethereal® core developer team has moved with Gerald to the Wireshark project
Bug Fixes :
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for details and a workaround.
- Wireshark could crash when dissecting an HTTP chunked response. (Bug 1394)
- On some systems, Wireshark could crash while reading iSeries capture files. (Bug 1415)
- Wireshark could exhaust system memory while reading a malformed DCP ETSI packet. (Bug 1264)
- Wireshark could loop excessively while reading a malformed SSL packet. (Bug 1582)
- The DHCP/BOOTP dissector was susceptible to an off-by-one error. (Bug 1416)
- Wireshark could loop excessively while reading a malformed MMS packet. (Bug 1342)
New and Updated Features :
- The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since the last release:
- You no longer have to restart Wireshark after changing column preferences. Woohoo!
- You can now export HTTP objects via File→Export→Objects→HTTP.
- Display filter macros are now supported.
- Right-clicking on a packet lets you copy many more things, such as the packet summary and the packet bytes.
- You can now match upper- and lower-case text with the contains operator, e.g. upper(http.request.method) contains "GET".
- A great deal of code has been cleaned up, including fixing many compiler errors. Many thanks to those who worked on this.
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