Open source Wireshark sniffs new 1.4.3 network traffic

Jan 13, 2011, 15:04 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)

[ Thanks to SMK for this link. ]

"From the 'What's That Smell?' files:

"If you've ever had to audit/capture network traffic, you've likely used the open source wireshark (formerly Ethereal) application.

"Wireshark is getting updated this week to version 1.4.3, providing some really interesting fixes. I personally use wireshark to audit network traffic and security, but apparently Wireshark itself had a trio of security flaws in it."

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