Download Wireshark 1.0.3

Yesterday version 1.03 of the open source protocol analyzer and packet sniffer Wireshark was released. This program was first released under the name Ethereal, but when lead developer and founder Gerald Combs exchanged the company NIS for Cace Technologies, he was able to take the software with him, but not the name due to the rights that rest on it. Wireshark can be used to parse and analyze many hundreds of different network protocols and data packets sent over the network. It can also use already stored data traffic as input. The changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

• The NCP dissector was susceptible to a number of problems, including buffer overflows and an infinite loop.
• Wireshark could crash while uncompressing zlib-compressed packet data.
• Wireshark could crash while reading a Tektronix .rf5 file.

The following bugs have been fixed:

• 802.11 WPA/WPA2-PSK Unable to decode Group Keys. (Bug 1420)
• Packets could wrongly be dissected as “Redback Lawful Intercept” (Bug 2376)
• MIKEY dissector improvements (Bug 2400)
• tvb_get_bits{16|32} could read past the end of a tvbuff (Bug 2439)
• Incorrect wslua function names. (Bug 2448)
• Memory corruption in wslua. (Bug 2453)
• Unknown PPPoE TAGs which are present in a PPPoE discovery packet are not displayed under “PPPoE Tags” subtree/section. (Bug 2458)
• Following a TCP stream could incorrectly reassemble packets. (Bug 2606)
• SIP decode shows fully expanded “Content-Length” header instead of compact form. (Bug 2635)
• Segmentation fault loading trace containing NCP packets. (Bug 2675)
• SIP packets might be incorrectly displayed as malformed. (Bug 2729)
• RTCP BYE padding interpreted incorrectly. (Bug 2778)
• Reversed RTP stream is saved as silent .au file, forward stream saves correctly. (Bug 2780)
• Fix some ribbon warnings. (Bug 2822)
• Setting a duration on a capture file would capture for an extra second.

New and Updated Features

• There are no new or updated features in this release.

New Protocol Support

• There are no new protocols in this release.

Updated Protocol Support

• AIM, Bluetooth RFCOMM, ERF, K12, NCP, PPP BCP, PPPoE, Q.933, Redback LI, RTCP, RTP, SIP, SNMP, TCP, V.120, WiMAX

New and Updated Capture File Support

• Endace ERF, Tektronix .rf5.

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