Wireshark 2.2.5 Is Out as the World's Most Popular Network Protocol Analyzer | Linux Today

Wireshark 2.2.5 Is Out as the World’s Most Popular Network Protocol Analyzer

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Marius Nestor
Mar 6, 2017

Wireshark 2.2.5 is now out as the latest and most advanced version of the open-source and multi-platform application used by numerous network administrators around the globe for network analysis, development, troubleshooting, and education purposes. The maintenance update addresses a bunch of security vulnerabilities discovered since the January release of Wireshark 2.2.4, including a crash with the LDSS dissector, an infinite loop with the RTMTP dissector, as well as a crash with the NetScaler file parser.

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Marius Nestor

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