{"id":7549,"date":"2018-02-25T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2018-02-25T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T14:39:07","slug":"wireshark-2-4-5-released-with-lots-of-vulnerabilities-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/wireshark-2-4-5-released-with-lots-of-vulnerabilities-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireshark 2.4.5 Released with Lots of Vulnerabilities Fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-icon2.png\" alt=\"wireshark\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wireshark network analyzer reached 2.4.5 release a few days ago. Lots of vulnerabilities and bugs has been fixed in the release.<\/p>\n<p>Wireshark 2.4.5 has fixed following issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple dissectors could go into large infinite loops. <\/li>\n<li>The UMTS MAC dissector could crash.<\/li>\n<li>The DOCSIS dissector could crash.<\/li>\n<li>The FCP dissector could crash. <\/li>\n<li>The SIGCOMP dissector could crash.<\/li>\n<li>The pcapng file parser could crash.<\/li>\n<li>The IPMI dissector could crash.<\/li>\n<li>The SIGCOMP dissector could crash.<\/li>\n<li>The NBAP disssector could crash.<\/li>\n<li>AutoScroll does not work.<\/li>\n<li>Unable to create Filter Expression Button for a yellow filter.<\/li>\n<li>Other fixes and updated protocol support. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wireshark.org\/docs\/relnotes\/wireshark-2.4.5.html\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Wireshark in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Wireshark has a stable PPA with the latest packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 17.10.<\/p>\n<p><i>You may first check the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~wireshark-dev\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\" target=\"_blank\">PPA link<\/a> for package version before doing following steps.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> To add the PPA, open terminal from Unity Dash \/ App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut keys, and then run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev\/stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password (no visual feedback due to security reason) when it asks and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-official-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-official-ppa-600x94.jpg\" alt=\"wireshark-official-ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-official-ppa-600x94.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-official-ppa-450x71.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-official-ppa.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> For those who have a previous release installed, launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> (or Update Manager) to upgrade it to the latest:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-wireshark.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-wireshark-450x343.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade wireshark \" width=\"450\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-wireshark-450x343.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-wireshark-600x457.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-wireshark.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or run the commands below in terminal to install \/ upgrade wireshark:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install wireshark<\/pre>\n<p><b>How to restore:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To restore to the stock version of Wireshark in Ubuntu main repositories, purge the PPA via ppa-purge tool:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:wireshark-dev\/stable<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wireshark network analyzer reached 2.4.5 release a few days ago. Lots of vulnerabilities and bugs has been fixed in the release. Wireshark 2.4.5 has fixed following issues: The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash. Multiple dissectors could go into large infinite loops. The UMTS MAC dissector could crash. The DOCSIS dissector could crash. The FCP dissector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[584,583],"class_list":["post-7549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-network-traffic-analyzer","tag-wireshark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}