Wireshark 3.2.3 released with a fix for vulnerabilities that results in the BACapp dissector crash and fix for other bugs.
Wireshark is known as the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education.
It is used by network administrators to troubleshoot network and by the security, analyst to examine the packets. It is a widely used tool in organizations.
For macOS users with Wireshark 3.2.0, automatic updates may fail, for those versions, it recommended to update later versions manually.
An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by injecting a malformed packet onto the network or convincing the administrators to read a malformed packet trace file, results in a BACapp dissector crash.
The vulnerability can be fixed by upgrading to 3.2.3, 3.0.10, 2.6.16 or later.
Following are the protocols updated includes AFS, BACapp, Bluetooth, CoAP, Diameter3GPP, F5 Ethernet trailer, GSM RLC MAC, ISIS, ISIS CLV, ISIS HELLO, ISIS LSP, ISIS SNP, NAS 5GS, NR RRC, pcap, QUIC, RPCAP, RTCP, SOME/IP-SD, TLS, and WSP.
The new version can be downloaded from here.
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