Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Wireshark 2.2.4 Open-Source Network Protocol Analyzer Released with Bug Fixes

Wireshark, the world's most popular network protocol analyzer software, has been updated today to version 2.2.4, the fourth bugfix and security update to the stable 2.2 series.

Wireshark 2.2.4 comes approximately five weeks after maintenance update 2.2.3 and provides patches for two recently discovered vulnerabilities, namely wnpa-sec-2017-01 and wnpa-sec-2017-01. While the first one could make the ASTERIX dissector go into an infinite loop, the second could make the DHCPv6 dissector go into a large loop.

A total of 22 bugs have been fixed since Wireshark 2.2.3, including a regression that would decode IEEE17221 (AVDECC) as IEEE1722 (AVB Transportation Protocol), an issue that would no allow Wireshark to correctly recognize V6 DBS Etherwatch capture files, as well as a crash that might occur when utilizing the VoIP flow sequence.

It also addresses a crash that occurred when dissecting the W... (read more)

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