 Wireshark 3.6.8 Release Notes

 What is Wireshark?

  Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is
  used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.

 What’s New

 Note: This is the last release branch with support for 32-bit Windows.
 Updates will no longer be available after May 22, 2024 for that
 platform. Issue 17779[1]

  Bug Fixes

   The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

     • wnpa-sec-2022-06[2] F5 Ethernet Trailer dissector infinite loop.
       Issue 18307[3].

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     • TCAP Malformed exception on externally re-assembled packet Issue
       10515[4].

     • Extended 3GPP-GPRS-Negotiated-QoS-profile strings decoded
       incompletely Issue 10688[5].

     • HTTP2 dissector decodes first SSL record only Issue 11173[6].

     • L2TP improvements - cookie length detection, UDP encapsulation
       and more Issue 16565[7].

     • USB Truncation of URB_isochronous in frames Issue 18021[8].

     • ISUP/BICC parameter summary text duplication Issue 18094[9].

     • Running rpm-setup.sh shows missing packages that Centos does not
       need Issue 18166[10].

     • IPX/IPX RIP: Crash on expand subtree Issue 18234[11].

     • Qt: A file or packet comment that is too large will corrupt the
       pcapng file Issue 18235[12].

     • BGP dissector bug Issue 18248[13].

     • Wrong interpretation of the cbsp.rep_period field in
       epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_cbsp.c Issue 18254[14].

     • Assertion due to incorrect mask for btatt.battery_power_state.*
       Issue 18267[15].

     • Qt: Expert Info dialog not showing Malformed Frame when Frame
       length is less than captured length Issue 18312[16].

     • Wireshark and tshark become non-responsive when reading certain
       packets Issue 18313[17].

  New and Updated Features

  New Protocol Support

   There are no new protocols in this release.

  Updated Protocol Support

   BGP, BICC, BT ATT, CBSP, Couchbase, F5 Ethernet Trailer, Frame, GTP,
   GTP (prime), IPsec, ISUP, L2TP, NAS-5GS, Protobuf, SCCP, TCP, and TLS

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   pcap, pcapng

  New File Format Decoding Support

   There is no new or updated file format support in this release.

 Getting Wireshark

  Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
  https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.

  Vendor-supplied Packages

   Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You
   can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management
   system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can
   be found on the download page[18] on the Wireshark web site.

 File Locations

  Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
  preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These
  locations vary from platform to platform. You can use "Help › About
  Wireshark › Folders" or `tshark -G folders` to find the default
  locations on your system.

 Getting Help

  The User’s Guide, manual pages and various other documentation can be
  found at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/

  Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site[19] and on the
  wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives
  for all of Wireshark’s mailing lists can be found on the web site[20].

  Bugs and feature requests can be reported on the issue tracker[21].

 Frequently Asked Questions

  A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[22].

 References

   1. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17779
   2. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-06
   3. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18307
   4. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/10515
   5. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/10688
   6. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/11173
   7. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/16565
   8. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18021
   9. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18094
  10. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18166
  11. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18234
  12. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18235
  13. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18248
  14. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18254
  15. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18267
  16. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18312
  17. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18313
  18. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
  19. https://ask.wireshark.org/
  20. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
  21. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues
  22. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html
