Tuesday, July 30, 2013

New Versions Of Wireshark Released

There have been found and fixed some vulnerabilities in Wireshark, free open source program for analyzing network protocols. By exploiting the vulnerabilities protocol analyzers in Wireshark can be prevented from working.

Vulnerable versions:
- Wireshark 1.8 series from version 1.8.0 to 1.8.8
- Wireshark 1.10.0

Non vulnerable version of Wireshark can be downloaded here.

More information about the contents of new versions can be read from release notes:
1.8.9
1.10.1

ISC Diary entry about the update can be viewed here.





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