Download Wireshark 1.4.4

Tuesday version 1.4.4 of Wireshark was released. Wireshark is an open source protocol analyzer and packet sniffer, which can analyze various network protocols and data packets on the network. The program can also use previously saved data traffic as input. Since version 1.2.0 there is a separate version for 64bit versions of Windows. As of version 1.4.0, there is also a 64bit version for Mac OS X, but Windows 2000 is no longer supported. No new features have been added in version 1.4.4. However, a large number of problems have been resolved and various protocols have been updated.

What’s New

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. see the security advisory for details and a workaround.

• Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that Wireshark could free an uninitialized pointer while reading a malformed pcap-ng file. (Bug 5652)
• Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a large packet length in a pcap-ng file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5661)
• Wireshark could overflow a buffer while reading a Nokia DCT3 trace file.
• Paul Makowski working for SEI/CERT discovered that Wireshark on 32 bit systems could crash while reading a malformed 6LoWPAN packet. (Bug 5722)
• joernchen of Phenoelit discovered that the LDAP and SMB dissectors could overflow the stack. (Bug 5717)
• Xiaopeng Zhang of Fortinet’s Fortiguard Labs discovered that large LDAP Filter strings can consume excessive amounts of memory. (Bug 5732)

The following bugs have been fixed:

• A TCP stream would not always be recognized as the same stream. (Bug 2907)
• Wireshark Crashing by pressing 2 Buttons. (Bug 4645)
• A crash can occur in the NTLMSSP dissector. (Bug 5157)
• The column texts from a Lua dissector could be mangled. (Bug 5326) (Bug 5630)
• Corrections to ANSI MAP ASN.1 specifications. (Bug 5584)
• When searching in packet bytes, the field and bytes are not immediately shown. (Bug 5585)
• Malformed Packet: ULP reported when dissecting ULP SessionID PDU. (Bug 5593)
• Wrong IEI in container or decode_gtp_mm_cntxt. (Bug 5598)
• Display filter does not work for expressions of type BASE_DEC, BASE_DEC_HEX and BASE_HEX_DEC. (Bug 5606)
• NTLMSSP dissector may fail to compile due to space embedded in C comment delimiters. (Bug 5614)
• Allow for name resolution of link-scope and multicast IPv6 addresses from local host file. (Bug 5615)
• DHCPv6 dissector formats DUID_LLT time incorrectly. (Bug 5627)
• Allow for IEEE 802.3bc-2009 style PoE TLVs. (Bug 5639)
• Various fixes to the HIP packet dissector. (Bug 5646)
• Display “Day of Year” for January 1 as 1, not 0. (Bug 5653)
• Accommodate the CMake build on Ubuntu 10.10. (Bug 5665)
• E.212 MCC 260 Poland update according to local national regulatory. (Bug 5668)
• IPP on ports other than 631 not recognized. (Bug 5677)
• Potential access violation when writing to LANalyzer files. (Bug 5698)
• IEEE 802.15.4 Superframe Specification – Final CAP Slot always 0. (Bug 5700)
• Peer SRC and DST AS numbers are swapped for cflow. (Bug 5702)
• dumpcap: -q option behavior doesn’t match documentation. (Bug 5716)

Updated Protocol Support

• ANSI MAP
• BitTorrent
• DCM
• DHCPv6
• DTAP
• DTPT
• E.212
• GSM Management
• GTP
• hip
• IEEE 802.15.4
• IPP
• LDAP
• LLDP
• net flow
• NTLMSSP
• P_Mul
• Quake
• skinny
• SMB
• SNMP
• ULP

New and Updated Capture File Support

• LANalyzer
• Nokia DCT3
• pcap-ng

The following downloads are available:
Wireshark 1.4.4 for Windows (32bit)
Wireshark 1.4.4 for Windows (64bit)
Wireshark 1.4.4 for Windows (U3 version)
Wireshark 1.4.4 for PortableApps
Wireshark 1.4.4 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel, 32bit)
Wireshark 1.4.4 for Mac OS X 10.5 (PPC, 32bit)
Wireshark 1.4.4 for Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel, 64bit)
Wireshark 1.4.4 source code for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD among others