Download Wireshark 0.99.5

Cace Technologies released version 0.99.5 of Wireshark the day before yesterday. Wireshark is the new name for Ethereal. When lead developer and founder Gerald Combs exchanged the NIS company for Cace Technologies, he could take the software with him, but not the name because of the rights attached to it. More information about this change is in this article found on NewsForge. Wireshark is a comprehensive packet sniffer and can be used to parse and analyze as many as hundreds of different network protocols and data being sent over the network. It can also use already stored data traffic as input. The changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements:

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

• The TCP dissector could hang or crash while reassembling HTTP packets. (bug 1200)
  Versions affected: 0.99.2 to 0.99.4
  CVE-2007-0459
• The HTTP dissector could crash.
  Versions affected: 0.99.3 to 0.99.4
  CVE-2007-0458
• On some systems, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash.
  Versions affected: 0.10.14 to 0.99.4
  CVE-2007-0457
• On some systems, the LLT dissector could crash.
  Versions affected: 0.99.3 to 0.99.4
  CVE-2007-0456

The following bugs have been fixed:

• On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar could sometimes disappear or become unusable. (Bug 220)
• The end of HTTP chunked encoding wasn’t being displayed. (Bug 646)
• The Follow TCP Stream window could omit characters. (Bug 1043)
• Opening a flow graph could crash Wireshark. (Bug 1117)
• Follow TCP Stream would sometimes get the direction wrong. (Bug 1138)
• The foreground text in the coloring rules editor was always black. (Bug 1164)
• The CSV export format was incorrect. (Bug 1173)
• On some Windows systems Wireshark could take a long time to start up.
• Malformed UDLD packets could cause an exception.
• The ISUP statistics report could overflow a buffer and crash when displaying IPv6 addresses.

New and Updated Features

• The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since the last release:
• We are now offering Wireshark as a U3 package for Windows. U3 packages are suitable for using on USB drives and CD-ROMs. It’s still experimental, but you’re welcome to try it out and report any problems or successes.
• Decryption support for WPA/WPA2 and SNMPv3 has been added. The TDS / MS SQL dissector now de-obfuscates passwords.
• 64-bit file handling has been improved.
• The Find function now selects the corresponding packet detail item. Find functionality has been added to the TCP and SSL stream dialogs.
• Main window keyboard navigation has been improved.
• Windows file dialogs now show the “places” bar (Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places, etc). File dialogs now default to “My Documents” in accordance with Microsoft’s HIG.
• AirPcap support (which provides raw mode capture under Windows) has been enhanced to allow capturing on multiple AirPcap adapters simultaneously.
• You can no longer install Wireshark on Windows 95, 98, or ME. (OK, so it’s not a feature per se, but it’s an important change). The last version known to work on these systems is Ethereal 0.99.0.
• ASN.1 BER-encoded files can now be dissected according to a user-specified syntax.

New Protocol Support

• DMP, Homeplug (INT51X1), NBD, OMAPI, PKCS#12, RGMP, Roofnet, STUN v2

UpdatedProtocol Support

• 2dparityfec, ACN, AIM, AMR, ANSI 637, ANSI A, ANSI MAP, ARP, ASN.1 BER, ASN.1 PER, BACapp, BPDU, CAMEL, DCERPC (DCERPC, EFS, EVENTLOG, NSPI, PN-IO, WINREG ), DCOM CBA, DCP, DHCP, DHCPv6, DMP, DNS, E.164, EAP, EPL, ETSI DCP, FCP, GIOP, GSM A, H.245, H.248, HPSW, HTTP, ICMP, ICMPv6, IEEE 802.11, IMAP, INAP, IPMI, IPsec, IRC, ISAKMP, iSCSI, ISIS LSP, IuUP, K12, Kerberos, LDAP, LLDP, MEGACO, MGCP, MIME Multipart, MMS, MMSE, MSRP, MySQL, NetFlow, NFS, NTLMSSP, NTP, OSPF, PN-PTCP, PPPoE, Q.931, Radiotap, RADIUS, RPC, RSVP, RTCP, S4406, SCCP, SCSI, SDP, SES, sFlow, SIGCOMP, SIP, SIR, Skinny, SMB (SMB, NETLOGON) , SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, SSL, T.38, TCP, TDS, text/media, TIPC, UDLD, UDP Lite, UDP, UMA, UMTS FP, USB, VNC, WBXML, WLCCP, WSP, X.411, X .420, XML, XOT, YMSG

New and Updated Capture File Support

• Catapult DCT2000, Netttl, Windows Sniffer / NetXray

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