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- <!ENTITY WiresharkCurrentVersion "0.99.2pre1">
+ <!ENTITY WiresharkCurrentVersion "0.99.5">
]>
<section><title>Bug Fixes</title>
<para>
- The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
+ The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the
+ <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-01.html">security advisory</ulink> for details and a workaround.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
- The XXXXXX dissector could crash.
- <!-- Fixed in r#####, r##### -->
- <!-- Bug IDs: ### -->
- Versions affected: 0.99.0.
+ The TCP dissector could hang or crash while reassembling HTTP packets.
+ <!-- Fixed in r19859 -->
+ <!-- Bug IDs: 1200 -->
+ Versions affected: 0.99.2 to 0.99.4
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ The HTTP dissector could crash.
+ <!-- Fixed in 19899 -->
+ <!-- Bug IDs: None -->
+ Versions affected: 0.99.3 to 0.99.4
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ On some systems, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash.
+ <!-- Fixed in 20126 -->
+ <!-- Bug IDs: None -->
+ Versions affected: 0.10.14 to 0.99.4
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ On some systems, the LLT dissector could crash.
+ <!-- Fixed in 20007 -->
+ <!-- Bug IDs: None -->
+ Versions affected: 0.99.3 to 0.99.4
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <!-- Coverity bugs (r17489 and above) -->
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+
+ The following bugs have been fixed:
- Under a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
- <ulink url="http://www.coverity.com">Coverity</ulink> has uncovered
- a number of vulnerabilities in Wireshark:
<itemizedlist>
- <!-- CID 1 - 149: Fixed for 0.99.0 -->
- <!-- CID 150: Post-0.99.0 -->
+ <para>
+ On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar could sometimes
+ disappear or become unusable.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220">Bug
+ 220</ulink>)
+ </para>
<listitem><para>
- XXXX feature could crash Wireshark.
- <!-- Fixed in r##### -->
- <!-- Bug IDs: None -->
- <!-- Coverity CID ### -->
- Versions affected: 0.9.16.
+ The end of HTTP chunked encoding wasn't being displayed.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=646">Bug
+ 646</ulink>)
</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ The Follow TCP Stream window could omit characters.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1043">Bug
+ 1043</ulink>)
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Opening a flow graph could crash Wireshark.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1117">Bug
+ 1117</ulink>)
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Follow TCP Stream would sometimes get the direction wrong.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1138">Bug
+ 1138</ulink>)
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ The foreground text in the coloring rules editor was always black..
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1164">Bug
+ 1164</ulink>)
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ The CSV export format was incorrect.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1173">Bug
+ 1173</ulink>)
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ On some Windows systems Wireshark could take a long time to start up.
+ </para></listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
+ WPA and WPA2 decryption support has been added. The TDS / MS SQL
+ dissector now de-obfuscates passwords.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ 64-bit file handling has been improved.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ The <command>Find</command> function now selects the corresponding.
+ packet detail item.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ <command>Find</command> functionality has been added to the TCP and
+ SSL stream dialogs.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Main window keyboard navigation has been improved.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ SNMPv3 decryption.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.htm">AirPcap</ulink>
+ support (which provides raw mode capture under Windows) has been
+ enhanced to allow capturing on multiple AirPcap adapters
+ simultaneously using the Multi-Channel Aggregator.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ You can no longer install Wireshark on Windows 95, 98, or ME. (OK,
+ so it's not a <emphasis>feature</emphasis> per seߪ)
</para></listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>
<section><title>New Protocol Support</title>
<para>
+DMP,
+NBD,
+OMAPI,
+RGMP,
+Roofnet,
+STUN v2
+
</para>
</section>
<section><title>Updated Protocol Support</title> <para>
+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,
+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,
+UDP Lite,
+UDP,
+UMA,
+UMTS FP,
+USB,
+VNC,
+WBXML,
+WLCCP,
+WSP,
+X.411,
+X.420,
+XML,
+XOT,
+YMSG
+
</para>
</section>
<section><title>New and Updated Capture File Support</title>
<para>
+Catapult DCT2000, Netttl, Windows Sniffer / NetXray
+
</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="GettingWireshark"><title>Getting Wireshark</title>
- <section><title>Microsoft Windows</title>
- <para>
- Download wireshark-setup-&WiresharkCurrentVersion;.exe from the
- <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download/win32/">Windows
- download area</ulink> on the main web site. Double-click the
- installer executable.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section><title>Sun Solaris</title>
- <para>
- Download the appropriate package from the
- <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download/solaris/">Solaris
- download area</ulink> on the main web site. Uncompress the package
- using bzip2, and install it using pkgadd.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section><title>Source Code</title>
- <para>
- Download wireshark-&WiresharkCurrentVersion;.tar.gz from the
- <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download/">main
- download area</ulink> on the web site. Extract the package
- using tar and gzip. Run "configure ; make ; make install".
- </para>
- </section>
+ <para>
+ Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
+ the <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html">download
+ page</ulink> on the main web site.
+ </para>
<section><title>Vendor-supplied Packages</title>
<para>
Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages.
- You can install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management
+ You can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management
system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages
- can be found on the <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#otherplat">download page</ulink> on the Wireshark web site.
+ can be found on the
+ <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#otherplat">download page</ulink> on the Wireshark web site.
</para>
</section>
<section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>
- <para>
- On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar can sometimes disappear
- or become unusable. Until the problem is fixed you can work around it
- by resizing the packet list or the main window.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220">Bug
- #220</ulink>)
- </para>
-
<para>
The <guibutton>Filter</guibutton> button is nonfunctional in the
file dialogs under Windows.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Trying to save flow data may crash Wireshark.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=396">Bug
- #396</ulink>)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- It may not be possible to re-order coloring rules under Windows.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=699">Bug
- #699</ulink>)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Multiple tap interfaces may cause a crash under FreeBSD.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=757">Bug
- #757</ulink>)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Wireshark may crash while viewing TCP streams.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=852">Bug
- #852</ulink>)
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=942">Bug
+ 942</ulink>)
</para>
</section>