14 DAY TRIAL // Wireshark, the world's most popular open-source, cross-platform, and free network analyzer software, has been updated to version 1.12.5, a release that fixes numerous issues, patches important security vulnerabilities, and updates protocol support.
According to the release notes, Wireshark 1.12.5 no more than seven vulnerabilities discovered in the LBMR, WebSocket, WCP, X11, and IEEE 802.11 dissectors, as well as in the Android Logcat file parser and the packet reassembly code.
Numerous bugs had been fixed as well, such as a crash that occurred when the "Update list of packets in real time" option got disabled and a displayed filter was applied during packet capturing, and another crash that took place when using Telephony and VoIP calls.
Furthermore, wrong EAPOL 4-way handshake information was fixed, a buffer overrun in the encryption code has been patched, the missing "tcp.pdu.size" field was added to the TCP stack, an infinite loop DoS in the ForCES dissector has been addressed, and RPC NULL calls are no longer flagged as malformed.
Several protocols received updates in Wireshark 1.12.5
In addition to the bug fixes mentioned above, Wireshark 1.12.5 now correctly sets relative ISN if the raw ISN is set to 0, addresses a problem with the ICMP parameter, makes the ICMP redirects to use 8 bytes of IPv4 payload instead of 4, and kills the annoying pop-up that appeared when attempting to capture on bonds.
Moreover, Sierra EM7345 no longer marks MBIM packets as NCM, "Decode As…" no longer crashes the app when opening a packet dialog, "Follow UDP Stream" no longer crashes on MPEG packets, the Interface Identifier is now correctly represented by Wireshark, several build issues have been resolved, and some typos were fixed.
Last but not least, the AllJoyn, ATM, ASN.1 PER, CANopen, ForCES, Diameter, GSM RLC/MAC, ICMP, GSMTAP, IEC-60870-5-104, IMF, IEEE 802.11, IP, LBMR, LBMC, LPP, LDAP, MBIM, MP2T, MEGACO, PKCS-1, PPP IPv6CP, RPC, SRVLOC, SPNEGO, SSL, TCP, T.38, USB, WebSocket, WCP,X11, and ZigBee ZCL protocols have been updated.
Support for the Android Logcat Savvius OmniPeek Visual Networks capture file has been added as well. Download Wireshark 1.12.5 for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now via Softpedia or directly from the project's website, where you can find all the information you need to get started with network analyzing and scanning operations.