Wireshark 3.0.4 released with a fix for several bugs and vulnerabilities. The Wireshark is the most popular network protocol analyzer used for analyzing network packets by organizations and individuals worldwide.
Windows installers for Wireshark now ships with Npcap 0.9983 and the macOS installer ships with Qt 5.12.3.
wnpa-sec-2019-21 – By injecting a malformed packet or by convincing the user to read a malformed packet trace file, it is possible to make the Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources.
The vulnerability affects 3.0.0 to 3.0.3, 2.6.0 to 2.6.10 and it has been fixed with 3.0.4, 2.6.11.
Following are the protocols supported by Wireshark 3.0.4 includes BACnet, DCERPC, DNS, EAP, FC-dNS, Gryphon, IEEE 802.11, LSD, NFS, and Radiotap. The supported file formats are CommView and PacketLogger.
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