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Write 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

Bug Fixes

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

• wnpa-sec-2020-01[1] WASSP dissector crash. Bug 16324[2].
CVE-2020-7044[3].

The following bugs have been fixed:

• Incorrect parsing of USB CDC packets. Bug 14587[4].

• Wireshark fails to create directory if parent directory does not
yet exist. Bug 16143[5].

• Buildbot crash output: randpkt-2019-11-30-22633.pcap. Bug
16240[6].

• Closing Flow Graph closes (crashes) main GUI window. Bug
16260[7].

• Wireshark interprets websocket frames after HTTP handshake in a
wrong way. Bug 16274[8].

• A-bis/OML: IPA Destination IP Address attribute contains inverted
value (endianness). Bug 16282[9].

• wiretap/log3gpp.c: 2 * leap before looking ?. Bug 16283[10].

• Opening shell terminal prints Wireshark: Permission denied. Bug
16284[11].

• h264: SPS frame_crop_right_offset shown in UI as
frame_crop_left_offset. Bug 16285[12].

• BGP: update of "Sub-TLV Length" by draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps.
Bug 16294[13].

• SPNEGO+GSS-API+Kerberos+ap-options dissection produces "Unknown
Bit(s)" expert message. Bug 16301[14].

• USB Audio feature unit descriptor is incorrectly dissected. Bug
16305[15].

• Compiling the .y files fails with Berkeley YACC. Bug 16306[16].

• PDB files in Windows installer. Bug 16307[17].

• NAS-5GS 5GS network feature support lacks MCSI, EMCN3 two fields
(octet 4). Bug 16310[18].

• Option to change “Packet List” columns header right click pop-up
menu behavior. Bug 16317[19].

• DLT: Dissector does not parse multiple DLT messages in single UDP
packet. Bug 16321[20].

• ISAKMP Dissection: Enhance Source id and Destination ID field of
GDOI SA TEK payload for non IP ID type. Bug 16233[21].

• DOIP: Typo in "identifcation request messages". Bug 16325[22].

• Toolbar "?" help button - no text/help displayed. Bug 16327[23].

New and Updated Features

There are no new features in this release.

New Protocol Support

There are no new protocols in this release.

Updated Protocol Support

802.11 Radiotap, ASN.1 BER, BGP, DLT, DOIP, GSM A RR, GSM A-bis/OML,
H264, HTTP, IEC 60870-5-104, IEEE 802.11, IPv4, ISAKMP, NAS 5GS,
rtnetlink, SIP, TIPC, USB Audio, USB CDC, and WASSP

New and Updated Capture File Support

3gpp phone log

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[24] 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 About→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[25] 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[26].

Bugs and feature requests can be reported on the bug tracker[27].

Frequently Asked Questions

A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[28].

Last updated 2020-01-15 17:51:08 UTC

References

1. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-01
2. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16324
3. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7044
4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14587
5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16143
6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16240
7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16260
8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16274
9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16282
10. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16283
11. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16284
12. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16285
13. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16294
14. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16301
15. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16305
16. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16306
17. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16307
18. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16310
19. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16317
20. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16321
21. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16233
22. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16325
23. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16327
24. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
25. https://ask.wireshark.org/
26. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
27. https://bugs.wireshark.org/
28. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html
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