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Wireshark 2.6.1

  -  161 MB  -  Open Source
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What's new in this version:

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
- The LDSS dissector could crash
- The IEEE 1905.1a dissector could crash
- The RTCP dissector could crash
- Multiple dissectors could consume excessive memory
- The DNS dissector could crash
- The GSM A DTAP dissector could crash
- The Q.931 dissector could crash
- The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash
- Multiple dissectors could crash
- Qt GUI does not snap to exactly half of screen in Windows
- Segmentation fault when switching profiles
- QUIC dissector produces incorrect packet numbers (wrong-endian)
- Wrong default file format chosen in when saving a capture with comments added if the original format doesn’t support comments
- Lua: Error during loading [AppData directory]:1: bad argument #1 to dofile (dofile: file does not exist)
- Crash when selecting text
- ui/macosx directory missing from source release tarball
- Wireshark 2.9.0 snapshot crashes/segfaults on Windows when launched with -k or -i
- "Copy as printable text" isn’t copying non-alphanumeric characters
- File missing from release tarball
- NEWS is out of date and does not display properly in Notepad
- l16mono.so is installed in the wrong place
- Remove: HACK to support UHD’s weird header offset on data packets
- WinSparkle 0.5.6 is out of date and is buggy
- Unable to create or open VOIP captures
- RTMPT: incorrect dissection of multiple RTMP packets within a single TCP packet
- Endpoints dialog displays invalid GeoIP information due to incorrect byte order
- Qt: Crash in ShowPacketBytesDialog()
- Statistics ? Resolved addresses show IP addresses without domain
- Erroneous MAC-LTE Dissection for Sidelink Shared Channel Packets
- Files missing from docbook CMake file
- Wireshark hangs when opening certain files if it’s been configured to use the new GeoIP databases
- The “Open”, “Save”, and other file dialogs should now be shown at the correct size on HiDPI Windows systems

UPDATED PROTOCOL SUPPORT:
- BATADV, BT LE LL, CoAP, DNS, DTLS, GSM A DTAP, GSM A GM, GTP, GTPv2, IEEE 1905.1a, IEEE 802.11, LDSS, LwM2M-TLV, MAC LTE, NAS EPS, Q.931, RTCP, RTMPT, SDP, TCP, and VITA 49
- New and Updated Capture File Support
- 3GPP TS 32.423 Trace and Android Logcat

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