14 DAY TRIAL // Wireshark, the open-source and cross-platform network protocol analyzer designed for network analysis, troubleshooting, development and education purposes, was updated today, April 13, 2017, to version 2.2.6.
Wireshark remains the world's most popular network protocol analyzer and scanner software, used by millions of network administrators and hackers around the world, and Wireshark 2.2.6 is the sixth maintenance update to the stable series of the application, bringing more fixes for recently discovered security flaws.
Among the security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in Wireshark 2.2.6, we can mention crashes in both the IMAP and PacketBB dissectors, as well as infinite loops with the WBMXL dissector, NetScaler file parser, RPCoRDMA dissector, BGP dissector, DOF dissector, SLSK dissector, SIGCOMP dissector, and WSP dissector.
Updated protocol support, bug fixes
Also updated in the Wireshark 2.2.6 maintenance release are the MySQL, IEEE 802.11, SSL, SSH, SCCP, ASTERIX, BGP, HTTP, BSSGP, WASSP, BT AVRCP, BT HCI_CMD, BT HFP, BT PBAP, DNS, PacketBB, DOF, EAPOL-MKA, SIGCOMP, GIOP, GSM SMS, TAPA, ICMP, WSP, IMAP, NBIFOM, ISIS LSP, SLSK, iSNS, and T.30 protocols.
Support for the LAPSat, ZigBee ZCL IAS, MIH, WBXML, NBAP, WLCCP, UA3G, PEEKREMOTE, IEEE 802.15.4, RPCoRDMA, and RTPproxy protocols has been updated as well, along with the NetScaler and pcapng capture file support. Additionally, a total of 36 bugs were squashed in Wireshark 2.2.6.
We've attached the full changelog below if you're curious to know what exactly was changed in this point release, and in the meantime, you can download Wireshark 2.2.6 binaries and the source tarball for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website. We recommend all users of Wireshark 2.2.5 or previous versions to update to Wireshark 2.2.6 as soon as possible.