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WireShark 1.6.2 (64-bit)

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What's new in this version:

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
- wnpa-sec-2011-12: A large loop in the OpenSafety dissector could cause a crash. (Bug 6138)
- wnpa-sec-2011-13: A malformed IKE packet could consume excessive resources.
- wnpa-sec-2011-14: A malformed capture file could result in an invalid root tvbuff and cause a crash. (Bug 6135)
- wnpa-sec-2011-15: Wireshark could run arbitrary Lua scripts. (Bug 6136)
- wnpa-sec-2011-16: The CSN.1 dissector could crash. (Bug 6139)

The following bugs have been fixed:
- configure ignores (partially) LDFLAGS. (Bug 5607)
- Build fails when it tries to #include , not present in Solaris 9. (Bug 5608)
- Unable to configure zero length SNMP Engine ID. (Bug 5731)
- BACnet who-is request device range values are not decoded correctly in the packet details window. (Bug 5769)
- H.323 RAS packets missing from packet counts in "Telephony->VoIP Calls" and the "Flow Graph" for the call. (Bug 5848)
- Wireshark crashes if sercosiii module isn't installed. (Bug 6006)
- Editcap could create invalid pcap files when converting from JPEG. (Bug 6010)
- Timestamp is incorrectly decoded for ICMP Timestamp Response packets from MS Windows. (Bug 6114)
- Malformed Packet in decode for BGP-AD update. (Bug 6122)
- Wrong display of CSN_BIT in CSN.1. (Bug 6151)
- Fix CSN_RECURSIVE_TARRAY last bit error in packet-csn1.c. (Bug 6166)
- Wireshark cannot display Reachable time & Retrans timer in IPv6 RA messages. (Bug 6168)
- ReadPropertyMultiple-ACK not correctly dissected. (Bug 6178)
- GTPv2 dissectors should treat gtpv2_ccrsi as optional. (Bug 6183)
- BGP : AS_PATH attribute was decode wrong. (Bug 6188)
- Fixes for SCPS TCP option. (Bug 6194)
- Offset calculated incorrectly for sFlow extended data. (Bug 6219)
- [Enter] key behavior varies when manually typing display filters. (Bug 6228)
- Contents of pcapng EnhancedPacketBlocks with comments aren't displayed. (Bug 6229)
- Misdecoding 3G Neighbour Cell Information Element in SI2quater message due to a coding typo. (Bug 6237)
- Mis-spelled word "unknown" in assorted files. (Bug 6244)
- tshark run with -Tpdml makes a seg fault. (Bug 6245)
- btl2cap extended window shows wrong bit. (Bug 6257)
- NDMP dissector incorrectly represents "ndmp.bytes_left_to_read" as signed. (Bug 6262)
- TShark/dumpcap skips capture duration flag occasionally. (Bug 6280)
- File types with no snaplen written out with a zero snaplen in pcap-ng files. (Bug 6289)
- Wireshark improperly parsing 802.11 Beacon Country Information tag. (Bug 6264)
- ERF records with extension headers not written out correctly to pcap or pcap-ng files. (Bug 6265)
- RTPS2: MAX_BITMAP_SIZE is defined incorrectly. (Bug 6276)
- Copying from RTP stream analysis copies 1st line many times. (Bug 6279)
- Wrong display of CSN_BIT under CSN_UNION. (Bug 6287)
- MEGACO context tracking fix - context id reuse. (Bug 6311)

- Updated Protocol Support: BACapp, Bluetooth L2CAP, CSN.1, DCERPC, GSM A RR, GTPv2, ICMP, ICMPv6, IKE, MEGACO, MSISDN, NDMP, OpenSafety, RTPS2, sFlow, SNMP, TCP

- New and Updated Capture File Support: CommView, pcap-ng, JPEG.