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WireShark 1.8.5 (32-bit)

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What's new in this version:

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
- Infinite and large loops in the Bluetooth HCI, CSN.1, DCP-ETSI DOCSIS CM-STAUS, IEEE 802.3 Slow Protocols, MPLS, R3, RTPS, SDP, and SIP dissectors. Reported by Laurent Butti. (Bugs 8036, 8037, 8038, 8040, 8041, 8042, 8043, 8198, 8199, 8222)
- The CLNP dissector could crash. Discovered independently by Laurent Butti and the Wireshark development team. (Bug 7871)
- The DTN dissector could crash. (Bug 7945)
- The MS-MMC dissector (and possibly others) could crash. (Bug 8112)
- The DTLS dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti. (Bug 8111)
- The ROHC dissector could crash. (Bug 7679)
- The DCP-ETSI dissector could corrupt memory. Discovered by Laurent Butti. (Bug 8213)
- The Wireshark dissection engine could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti. (Bug 8197)
- The NTLMSSP dissector could overflow a buffer. Discovered by Ulf Härnhammar.

The following bugs have been fixed:
- SNMPv3 Engine ID registration. (Bug 2426)
- Wrong decoding of gtp.target identification. (Bug 3974)
- Reassemble.c leaks memory for GLIB > 2.8. (Bug 4141)
- Wireshark crashes when starting due to out-of-date plugin left behind from earlier installation. (Bug 7401)
- Failed to dissect TLS handshake packets. (Bug 7435)
- ISUP dissector problem with empty Generic Number. (Bug 7632)
- Illegal character is used in temporary capture file name. (Bug 7877)
- Lua code crashes wireshark after update to 1.8.3. (Bug 7976)
- Timestamp info is not saved correctly when writing DOS Sniffer files. (Bug 7998)
- 1.8.3 Wireshark User's Guide version is 1.6. (Bug 8009)
- Core dumped when the file is closed. (Bug 8022)
- LPP is misspelled in APDU parameter in e-CIDMeasurementInitiation request for LPPA message. (Bug 8023)
- Wrong packet bytes are selected for ISUP CUG binary code. (Bug 8035)
- Decodes FCoE Group Multicast MAC address as Broadcom MAC address. (Bug 8046)
- The SSL dissector stops decrypting the SSL conversation with Malformed Packet:SSL error messages. (Bug 8075)
- Unable to Save/Apply [Unistim Port] in Preferences. (Bug 8078)
- Some Information Elements in GTPv2 are not dissected correctly. (Bug 8079)
- Wrong bytes highlighted with "Find Packet...". (Bug 8085)
- 3GPP ULI AVP. SAI is not correctly decoded. (Bug 8098)
- Wireshark does not show "Start and End Time" information for Cisco Netflow/IPFIX with type 154 to 157. (Bug 8105)
- GPRS Tunnel Protocoll GTP Version 1 does not decode DAF flag in Common Flags IE. (Bug 8193)
- Wrong parcing of ULI of gtpv2 messages - errors in SAC, RAC & ECI. (Bug 8208)
- Version Number in EtherIP dissector. (Bug 8211)
- Warn Dissector bug, protocol JXTA. (Bug 8212)
- Electromagnetic Emission Parser parses field Event Id as Entity Id. (Bug 8227)

Updated Protocol Support:
- ANSI IS-637-A, ASN.1 PER, AX.25, Bluetooth HCI, CLNP, CSN.1, DCP-ETSI, DIAMETER, DIS PDU, DOCSIS CM-STATUS, DTLS, DTN, EtherIP, Fibre Channel, GPRS, GTP, GTPv2, HomePlug AV, IEEE 802.3 Slow, IEEE 802.15.4, ISUP, JXTA, LAPD, LPPa, MPLS, MS-MMC, NAS-EPS, NTLMSSP, ROHC, RSL, RTPS, SDP, SIP, SNMP, SSL

New and Updated Capture File Support:
- DOS Sniffer

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