Wireshark, the most popular network protocol analyzer has reached v1.10.3. Wireshark 1.10.3 fixed lots of bugs and updated many protocols support.
This tutorial shows how to install Wireshark 1.10.3 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Linux Mint and their derivatives.
What’s New in Wireshark 1.10.3:
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
The IEEE 802.15.4 dissector could crash.
The NBAP dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti.
The SIP dissector could crash.
The OpenWire dissector could go into a large loop. Discovered by Murali.
The TCP dissector could crash.
The following bugs has been fixed:
new_packet_list: EAP-TLS reassemble does not happen when NEW_PACKET_LIST is toggled.
TLS decryption fails with XMPP start_tls.
Wrong Interpretation of GTS starting slot.
“Follow TCP Stream” shows only the first HTTP req+res.
The value of SEND_TO_UE in the DIAMETER Gx dictionary for Packet-Filter-Usage AVP is 0 instead of 1.
Crash then try to delete the same entry (length range) twice.
Crash if wrong “packet lengths range” entered.
Bssgp ⇒ SGSN-INVOKE-TRACE use the wrong function…
Minor correction to dissection of DLR frames in Ethernet/IP dissector.
WebSphere MQ V7 Bug Fix 8322 TSHM_EBCDIC.
EDNS0 “Higher bits in extended RCODE” incorrectly decoded in packet-dns.c.
Files with pcap-ng Simple Packet Blocks can’t be read.
Bug in RTP dissector if RTP extension is present.
Improve “eHRPD Indicator” NVSE dissection in 3GPP2 A11 Registration Request.
It’s recommended to upgrade to this version because it fixed lots of vulnerabilities and bugs that affected in versions that are available by default in Ubuntu repository.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one to install Wireshark 1.10.3 from PPA: