Wireshark 1.12.5 Officially Released, Still the World's Most Popular Network Analyzer | Linux Today

Wireshark 1.12.5 Officially Released, Still the World’s Most Popular Network Analyzer

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Marius Nestor
May 12, 2015

Wireshark, the world’s most popular open-source, cross-platform, and free network analyzer software, has been updated to version 1.12.5, a release that fixes numerous issues, patches important security vulnerabilities, and updates protocol support. No more than seven vulnerabilities discovered in the LBMR, WebSocket, WCP, X11, and IEEE 802.11 dissectors, as well as in the Android Logcat file parser and the packet reassembly code. Numerous bugs have been fixed.

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Marius Nestor

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