The Ethereal network protocol analyzer has changed its name to Wireshark.
The name might be new, but the software is the same. Wireshark's powerful features make it the tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development, and education worldwide.
Wireshark was written by networking experts around the world, and is an example of the power of open source
Wireshark is used by network professionals around the world for analysis, troubleshooting, software and protocol development and education.
The program has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product. Its open source license allows talented experts in the networking community to add enhancements.
What's New in This Release:
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
· Laurent Butti discovered that Wireshark failed to properly check record sizes for many packet capture file formats.
· Wireshark could dereference a NULL pointer and crash.
· The RLC dissector could overflow a buffer.
The following bugs have been fixed:
· "Closing File!" Dialog Hangs.
· Sub-fields of data field should appear in exported PDML as children of the data field instead of as siblings to it.
· Incorrect time differences displayed with time reference set.
· Wrong packet type association of SNMP trap after TFTP transfer.
· SSL/TLS decryption needs wireshark to be rebooted.
· Export HTTP Objects -> save all crashes Wireshark.
· Wireshark Netflow dissector complains there is no template found though the template is exported.
· DCERPC EPM tower UUID must be interpreted always as little endian.
· Crash if no recent files.
· IPv6 frame containing routing header with 0 segments left calculates wrong UDP checksum.
· IPv4 UDP/TCP Chec...