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WireShark 1.8.6 (32-bit)

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What's new in this version:

Bug Fixes:
- The TCP dissector could crash. (Bug 8274)
- The HART/IP dissectory could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 8360)
- The CSN.1 dissector could crash.
- The MS-MMS dissector could crash.
- The MPLS Echo dissector could go into an infinite loop.
- The RTPS and RTPS2 dissectors could crash. (Bug 8332)
- The Mount dissector could crash. (Bug 8335)
- The AMPQ dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 8337)
- The ACN dissector could attempt to divide by zero. (Bug 8340)
- The CIMD dissector could crash. (Bug 8346)
- The FCSP dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 8359)
- The RELOAD dissector could go into an infinite loop. (Bug 8364)
- The DTLS dissector could crash. (Bug 8380)

The following bugs have been fixed:
- Lua pinfo.cols.protocol not holding value in postdissector. (Bug 6020)
- data combined via ssl_desegment_app_data not visible via "Follow SSL Stream" only decrypted ssl data tabs. (Bug 6434)
- HTTP application/json-rpc should be decoded/shown as application/json. (Bug 7939)
- Maximum value of 802.11-2012 Duration field should be 32767. (Bug 8056)
- Voice RTP player crash if player is closed while playing. (Bug 8065)
- Display Filter Macros crash. (Bug 8073)
- RRC RadioBearerSetup message decoding issue. (Bug 8290)
- R-click filters add ! in front of field when choosing "apply as filter>selected". (Bug 8297)
- BACnet - Loop Object - Setpoint-Reference property does not decode correctly. (Bug 8306)
- WMM TSPEC Element Parsing is not done is wrong due to a wrong switch case number. (Bug 8320)
- Incorrect RTP statistics (Lost Packets indication not ok). (Bug 8321)
- Registering ieee802154 dissector for IEEE802.15.4 frames inside Linux SLL frames. (Bug 8325)
- Version Field is skipped while parsing WMM_TSPEC causing wrong dissecting (1 byte offset missing) of all fields in the TSPEC. (Bug 8330)
- BACnet] UCS-2 strings longer than 127 characters do not decode correctly. (Bug 8331)
- Malformed IEEE80211 frame triggers DISSECTOR_ASSERT. (Bug 8345)
- Decoding of GSM MAP SMS Diagnostics. (Bug 8378)
- Incorrect packet length displayed for Flight Message Transfer Protocol (FMTP). (Bug 8407)
- Netflow dissector flowDurationMicroseconds nanosecond conversion wrong. (Bug 8410)
- BE (3) AC is wrongly named as "Video" in (qos_acs). (Bug 8432)

Updated Protocol Support:
- ACN, AMQP, ASN.1 PER, BACnet, CIMD, CSN.1, DOCSIS TLVs, DTLS, FCSP, FMP/NOTIFY, FMTP, GSM MAP SMS, HART/IP, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4, JSON, Linux SLL, LTE RRC, Mount, MPLS Echo, Netflow, RELOAD, RSL, RTP, RTPS, RTPS2, SABP, SIP, SSL, TCP