14 DAY TRIAL // Wireshark, the world's most popular open-source, cross-platform, and free network protocol analyzer software, which is being used by many security experts for analysis and troubleshooting of network issues, has been updated to version 2.0.4.
Wireshark 2.0.4 is the fourth maintenance update to the 2.0 series of the application, and it comes one and a half months after the release of Wireshark 2.0.3. It's worth noting that it promises to patch a total of nine security vulnerabilities as well as to address over 30 bugs that have been reported by the community since the previous point release.
According to the release notes, crashes have been fixed in the Toshiba file parser, CoSine file parser, NetScreen file parser, IEEE 802.11 dissector, UMTS FP dissector, Ethernet dissector, as well as some USB dissectors. The entire list of bug fixed can be studied at the end of the article, and it looks like the Windows installer now compiles with Microsoft's Authenticode policy.
"Windows installers and PortableApps packages are dual signed using SHA-1 and SHA-256 in order to comply with Microsoft Authenticode policy. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users should ensure that update 3123479 is installed. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 users should ensure that hotfix 2763674 is installed," reads today's announcement.
Updated protocol and file capture support
As expected, the new Wireshark 2.0.4 maintenance release updates the built-in protocol support for IPv4, IEEE 802.11, ICMPv6, Ethernet, NFS, AFS, GSM A RR, ANSI IS-637 A, DCERPC SPOOLS, BACapp, LPADm, BT BNEP, SMB, Cisco FabricPath MiM, USB, UMTS FP, CSN.1, OpenFlow, DIS, TZSP, MRCPv2, JXTA, ISUP, LAPSat, J1939, STT, SGsAP, and LTE-RRC.
Last but not least, the Toshiba, Aethra, Catapult DCT2000, iSeries, CoSine, VMS TCPIPtrace, DBS Etherwatch, ERF, NetScreen, and Ixia IxVeriWave capture file formats have been updated and are fully supported by Wireshark. Download Wireshark 2.0.4 for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now via our website.