Wireshark 1.12.6 is a small release that patches a couple of security issues, updates support for some protocols, and addresses several bugs that have been reported by users since the previous release of the software. Two security issues have been patched in Wireshark 1.12.6, wnpa-sec-2015-19 (a crash that occurred in the WCCP (Web Cache Communication Protocol) dissector) and wnpa-sec-2015-20 (a crash that occurred in the GSM Direct Transfer Application sub-Part (DTAP) dissector).
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