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Wireshark 3.4.5 Release Notes

 What is Wireshark?

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

 What’s New

  Bug Fixes

   The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

     • wnpa-sec-2021-04[1] MS-WSP dissector excessive memory
       consumption. Issue 17331[2].

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     • TShark does not print GeoIP information Issue 14691[3].

     • TShark error when piping to "head" Issue 16192[4].

     • Parts of ASCII representation in Packet Bytes pane are missing
       Issue 17087[5].

     • Buildbot crash output: fuzz-2021-02-22-1012761.pcap Issue
       17254[6].

     • NDPE attribute of NAN packet is not dissected Issue 17278[7].

     • TECMP: reserved flag interpreted as part of timestamp Issue
       17279[8].

     • Master branch does not compile at least with gcc-11 Issue
       17281[9].

     • DNS IXFR/AXFR multiple response Issue 17293[10].

     • File too large Issue 17301[11].

     • Build fails with CMake 3.20 Issue 17314[12].

  New and Updated Features

  New Protocol Support

   There are no new protocols in this release.

  Updated Protocol Support

   DECT, DNS, EAP, Kerberos, LDAP, MS-WSP, SMB2, Sysdig, TECMP, and WiFi
   NAN

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   pcapng

 Getting Wireshark

  Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
  https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.

  Vendor-supplied Packages

   Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. 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 download page[13] on the Wireshark web site.

 File Locations

  Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
  preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These
  locations vary from platform to platform. You can use About → Folders
  to find the default locations on your system.

 Getting Help

  The User’s Guide, manual pages and various other documentation can be
  found at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/

  Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site[14] and on the
  wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives
  for all of Wireshark’s mailing lists can be found on the web site[15].

  Issues and feature requests can be reported on the issue tracker[16].

 Frequently Asked Questions

  A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[17].

  Last updated 2021-04-21 17:09:57 UTC

 References

   1. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2021-04
   2. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17331
   3. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/14691
   4. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/16192
   5. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17087
   6. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17254
   7. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17278
   8. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17279
   9. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17281
  10. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17293
  11. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17301
  12. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17314
  13. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
  14. https://ask.wireshark.org/
  15. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
  16. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues
  17. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html