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WireShark 1.2.9

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What's new in this version:

Bug Fixes:
- The SMB dissector could dereference a NULL pointer. (Bug 4734)
- J. Oquendo discovered that the ASN.1 BER dissector could overrun the stack.
- The SMB PIPE dissector could dereference a NULL pointer on some platforms.
- The SigComp Universal Decompressor Virtual Machine could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 4826)
- The SigComp Universal Decompressor Virtual Machine could overrun a buffer. (Bug 4837)

The following bugs have been fixed:
- Cannot open file with File -> Open. (Bug 1791)
- Application crash when changing real-time option. (Bug 4035)
- Crash in filter autocompletion. (Bug 4306)
- The XML dissector doesn't allow dots (".") in tags. (Bug 4405)
- Live capture stops when using zlib 1.2.5. (Bug 4708)
- Want to be able to apply decode as to Data Portion of Lan Trace. (Bug 4721)
- SABP short pdu (packet_per.c). (Bug 4743)
- Kerberos pre-auth type constants - MS extensions are wrong. (Bug 4752)
- Check HTTP Content-Length parsing for overflow. (Bug 4758)
- Wrong variable used for proto_tree_add_text() in ptp dissector. (Bug 4773)
- Crash when close window frame of gtk file chooser. (Bug 4778)
- text2pcap expects \n delimited text (instead of \r\n) on win32. (Bug 4780)
- Wrong decoding for BGP ORF. (Bug 4782)
- Crash when Ctrl-Backspacing the display filter. (Bug 4797)
- Acker AFI field incorrect size in PGM dissector. (Bug 4798)
- Fedora 13: wireshark fails to build (linking problem). (Bug 4815)
- The NFS FH hash (nfs.fh.hash) incorrectly matches multiple filehandles. (Bug 4839)
- AES-CTR decoding not working, (dissectors/packet_ipsec.c using gcrypt). (Bug 4838)

Updated Protocol Support:
- ASN.1 BER, BGP, HTTP, IGMP, IPsec, Kerberos, NFS, PGM, PTP, SABP, SigComp, SMB, TCAP, XML,

Updated Capture File Support:
- ERF, PacketLogger.