Update: Wireshark 1.8.1!

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July 24, 2012 By Mayuresh

Time to update your Wireshark installations as the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer now has an update – Wireshark version 1.8.1 (stable)!

"Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education.”

Wireshark 1.8.1 official change log:

Bug Fixes

The following bugs have been fixed:

• Wireshark crashes on bootp filter. (Bug 7391)
  
• Wireshark > 1.4 does not correctly read Association ID for PS Poll packets. (Bug 7429)
  
• Radius-EAP broken since 1.8.0 release. (Bug 7430)
  
• SNMP incorrectly marks SNMPv3 “discovery” packet as malformed. (Bug 7438)
  
• Widgets are not properly expanded in GTK3. (Bug 7377)
  
• Find Next Mark duplicated on Edit Menu. (Bug 7445)
  
• DVB-CI/CI+: fix offset error in operator_info apdu. (Bug 7468)
  
• Unable to correctly identify IEC 61850 MMS packets. (Bug 7488)
  
• WinPcap doesn’t install if vcredist_x64 requires reboot. (Bug 7507)
  

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

• wnpa-sec-2012-11: The PPP dissector could crash. (Debian bug 680056) –> Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.13, 1.6.0 to 1.6.8, 1.8.0.
  
• wnpa-sec-2012-12: The NFS dissector could use excessive amounts of CPU. (Bug 7436)
  

Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.13, 1.6.0 to 1.6.8, 1.8.0.

Updated Protocol Support:

BACapp, BOOTP, DCERPC SPOOLSS, DVB-CI, H.248, IEEE 802.11, Jmirror, NAS EPS, NFS, PPP, RELOAD Framing, SES, SNMP, XMPP

New and Updated Capture File Support:

Microsoft Network Monitor

Download Wireshark:

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Wireshark 1.8.1 – Wireshark-win64-1.8.1.exe / wireshark-1.8.1.tar.bz2

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