Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Read/write many different capture file form0ats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer Pro, and NetXray, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others. Output can be exported to XML, PostScript, CSV, or plain text
What’s new in this version: The following bugs have been fixed:
- Laurent Butti discovered that Wireshark failed to properly check record sizes for many packet capture file formats. (Bug 6663, bug 6666, bug 6667, bug 6668, bug 6669, bug 6670) Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.10, 1.6.0 to 1.6.4.
- Wireshark could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (Bug 6634) Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.10, 1.6.0 to 1.6.4.
- The RLC dissector could overflow a buffer. … See all new features
