Wireshark, World’s Most Popular Network Analyzer, Receives Numerous Improvements in Recent Update

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Marius Nestor
Mar 6, 2015

Wireshark 1.12.4 patches six security vulnerabilities that have been discovered since the previous version of the software, Wireshark 1.12.3. These were mostly related to the dissectors, including WCP, WCP dissector, LLDP, SCSI OSD, and TNEF. Numerous bugs have been fixed in Wireshark 1.12.4.

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Marius Nestor

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