Wireshark 2.0.5 Released as the World's Most Popular Network Protocol Analyzer

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Wireshark 2.0.5 Released

The development team behind Wireshark, the world's most popular open-source, cross-platform, and free network protocol analyzer software, announced the release of Wireshark 2.0.5 for all supported platforms.

This is the fifth maintenance update to the Wireshark 2.0 series, which is currently the latest stable and most advanced branch of the open source project used by numerous security experts around the globe for analysis and troubleshooting of network issues, with the ultimate goal of hardening the security of their networks.

According to the release notes, Wireshark 2.0.5 is here to resolved over 20 issues reported by users since the previous maintenance update, version 2.0.4, as well as to update the protocol and capture file support. It's worth noting that Wireshark 2.0.5 promises to patch a total of nine security vulnerabilities.

These security patches fix issues and crashes that occurred with various core components of Wireshark, including the CORBA IDL dissector, LDSS dissector, and RLC dissector, as well as PacketBB. Infinite loop issues with MMSE, WAP, WBXML, and WSP were addresses as well, along with long loop problems with OpenFlow and RLC.

Updated protocol and file capture support

The Wireshark 2.0.5 maintenance release updates the built-in protocol support for 802.11 Radiotap, BGP, CAN, CANopen, H.248 Q.1950, IPv4, IPv6, LANforge, LDSS, MPTCP, OSPF, PacketBB, PRP, RLC, RMT-FEC, RSVP, RTP MIDI, T.30, TDS, USB, WAP, WBXML, WiMax RNG-RSP, WSP, and the pcapng capture file.

If you want to know what exactly has been changed in the fifth bugfix release of the world's most popular network protocol analyzer software, we recommend you check out the full changelog attached below. In the meantime, you can Download Wireshark right now.

Wireshark 2.0.5 Changelog

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T30 FCF byte decoding masks DTC, CIG and NCS. (Bug 1918)
 TShark crashes with option "-z io,stat,…" in the presence of negative relative packet timestamps. (Bug 9014)
 Packet size limited during capture msg is repeated in the Info column. (Bug 9826)
 Wireshark loses windows decorations on second screen when restarting maximized using GNOME. (Bug 11303)
 Cannot launch GTK+ version of wireshark as a normal user. (Bug 11400)
 Restart current capture fails with "no interface selected" error when capturing in promiscuous mode. (Bug 11834)
 Add field completion suggestions when adding a Display filter or Y Field to the IO Graph. (Bug 11899)
 Wireshark Qt always indicates locale as "C". (Bug 11960)
 Wireshark crashes every time open Statistics → Conversations | Endpoints. (Bug 12288)
 Find function within the conversations window does not work. (Bug 12363)
 Invalid values for USB SET_REQUEST packets. (Bug 12511)
 Display filter dropdown hides cursor. (Bug 12520)
 Filter for field name tcp.options.wscale.multiplier cannot exceed 255. (Bug 12525)
 Ctrl+ shortcuts that are not text-related do not work when focus is on display filter field. (Bug 12533)
 Closing Statistics window results in black screen. (Bug 12544)
 OSPF: Incorrect description of N/P-bit in NSSA LSA. (Bug 12555)
 Inconsistent VHT data rate. (Bug 12558)
 DCE/RPC malformed error when stub-data is missing but a sub-dissector has been registered. (Bug 12561)
 Wireshark is marking BGP FlowSpec NLRI as malformed if NLRI length is larger than 239 bytes. (Bug 12568)
 "Edit Resolved Name" is not saved in current pcapng file. (Bug 12629)
 MPTCP: MP_JOIN B bit not decoded correctly. (Bug 12635)
 MPTCP MP_PRIO header with AddrID: incorrect AddrID. (Bug 12641)

Updated Protocol Support

802.11 Radiotap, BGP, CAN, CANopen, H.248 Q.1950, IPv4, IPv6, LANforge, LDSS, MPTCP, OSPF, PacketBB, PRP, RLC, RMT-FEC, RSVP, RTP MIDI, T.30, TDS, USB, WAP, WBXML, WiMax RNG-RSP, and WSP

 

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