Wireshark 2.6.10 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-2019-20[1] ASN.1 BER and related dissectors crash. Bug
       15870[2]. CVE-2019-13619[3].

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     • Wireshark 2.6.3 crashes in QIcon destructor on closing the main
       window on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04. Bug 15241[4].

     • RSL dissector bugs in presence of optional IEs. Bug 15789[5].

     • The "Media Attribute Value" field is missed in rtcp SDP
       dissection (packet-sdp.c). Bug 15791[6].

     • BTLE doesn’t properly detect start fragment of L2CAP PDUs. Bug
       15807[7].

     • tshark: Display filter error message references "-d" when it
       should reference "-Y". Bug 15825[8].

     • Open "protocol" preferences …​ does not work for protocol in
       subtree. Bug 15836[9].

     • Problems with sshdump "Error by extcap pipe: sh: sudo: command
       not found". Bug 15845[10].

     • editcap won’t change encapsulation type when writing pcap format.
       Bug 15873[11].

  New and Updated Features

   There are no new features in this release.

  New Protocol Support

   There are no new protocols in this release.

  Updated Protocol Support

   ASN.1, BTLE, CUPS, DNS, DPNSS, GSM RLC/MAC, HiQnet, ISObus VT, MAC
   LTE, MIME multipart, MQ, RSL, SDP, SMB, and TNEF

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   Ascend

  New and Updated Capture Interfaces support

   There is no new or updated capture file support in this release.

 Getting Wireshark

  Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
  https://www.wireshark.org/download.html[12].

  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.

 Known Problems

  The BER dissector might infinitely loop. Bug 1516[14].

  Capture filters aren’t applied when capturing from named pipes. Bug
  1814[15].

  Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works. Bug
  2234[16].

  Application crash when changing real-time option. Bug 4035[17].

  Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
  Bug 4985[18].

  Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. Bug
  10488[19].

 Getting Help

  Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site[20] 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[21].

  Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
  Wireshark University[22].

 Frequently Asked Questions

  A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[23].

  Last updated 2019-07-17 16:40:34 UTC

 References

   1. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-20
   2. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15870
   3. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13619
   4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15241
   5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15789
   6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15791
   7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15807
   8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15825
   9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15836
  10. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15845
  11. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15873
  12. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
  13. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
  14. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
  15. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
  16. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
  17. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
  18. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
  19. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10488
  20. https://ask.wireshark.org/
  21. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
  22. http://www.wiresharktraining.com/
  23. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html
