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Wireshark 2.4.1

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What's new in this version:

Bug Fixes:
- wnpa-sec-2017-38. MSDP dissector infinite loop (Bug 13933)
- wnpa-sec-2017-39. Profinet I/O buffer overrun (Bug 13847)
- wnpa-sec-2017-40. Modbus dissector crash (Bug 13925)
- wnpa-sec-2017-41. IrCOMM dissector buffer overrun (Bug 13929)
- Incorrect presentation of Ascend-Data-Filter (RADIUS attribute 242). (Bug 11630)
- Confusing "Apply a display filter " keyboard shortcut. (Bug 12450)
- Wireshark crashes at startup if it needs to display a dialog early in the startup process. (Bug 13275)
- RADIUS dictionary: BEGIN-VENDOR does not support format=Extended-Vendor-Specific-*. (Bug 13745)
- Dumpcap on big-endian machines writes out corrupt, unreadable Enhanced Packet Blocks. (Bug 13802)
- Interface Toolbar support for Windows. (Bug 13833)
- Wireshark should behave better on high resolution displays on Windows. (Bug 13877)
- Udpdump.pod missing from build. (Bug 13903)
- RTP Player Format Error. (Bug 13906)
- VNC Protocol disector : Framebuffer Updates. (Bug 13910)
- DNS LOC RRs with out-of-range longitude or latitude aren’t shown as errors. (Bug 13914)
- DIS Dissector Entity Appearance Record displayed in wrong location. (Bug 13917)
- Win64 CMake bug - (CYGWIN_INSTALL_PATH redefinition) causing missing packages when using CMake 3.9.0. (Bug 13922)
- APL records parsed incorrectly for IPv4 prefixes. (Bug 13923)
- File→Merge dialog doesn’t show all options. Resizing doesn’t help. (Bug 13924)
- TCAP SRT Analysis incorrectly matched TCAP begins and ends. (Bug 13926)
- Error in MKA Distributed SAK parameter set dissection. (Bug 13927)
- E.212: Check length before trying 3-digits MNC. (Bug 13935)
- mpeg_descriptor: AC3 System A: Respect descriptor length. (Bug 13939)
- Crash in Wireshark using Dumper:dump() from Lua. (Bug 13944)
- MRCPv2 not decoded correctly. (Bug 13952)
- UDP Checksum verification not working for 0x0000 checksum. (Bug 13955)
- OSPF v3 LSA Type not well parsed. (Bug 13979)
- GTPv2 - decoding issue for Packet Flow ID (type 123). (Bug 13987)
- TRANSUM fails to calculate RTE figures for DCE-RPC where request Packet Type is zero. (Bug 13988)
- BTLE Hop and SCA fields incorrectly dissected in BLE CONNECT_REQ. (Bug 13990)
- [oss-fuzz] BGP memleak: ASAN: 276 byte(s) leaked in 5 allocation(s). (Bug 13995)
- Some Infiniband Connect Req fields are not decoded correctly. (Bug 13997)
- GTP: gtp.ext_comm_flags_II_pmtsmi bit not decoded correctly. (Bug 14001)
- InfiniBand: sIP and dIP inside IP CM Private Data are decoded in the wrong order. (Bug 14002)
- 802.11 wlan.ft.subelem.r0kh_id should be sequence of bytes. (Bug 14004)
- USB capture: Unrecognized libpcap format or not libpcap data. (Bug 14006)
- SQ Header Pointer in NVMoF response capsule is decoded with the wrong endian. (Bug 14008)

Updated Protocol Support:
- BGP, BT LE, DIS, DNS, E.212, EPL, GTP, GTPv2, IEEE 802.11, InfiniBand, IPv4, IrCOMM, MKA, Modbus, MPEG Descriptor, MRCPv2, MSDP, MTP2, Nordic BLE, NVMe, OSPF, pcapng MIME, PMIPv6, Profinet I/O, RADIUS, SML, TCAP, TRANSUM, UA3G, UDP, VNC, and ZigBee