Wireshark, an industry-leading network packet analyzer, has released version 4.0.7, which includes defect fixes, protocol updates, and a few enhancements. It continues to be an extensively utilized and popular network protocol analysis tool.
Wireshark, a packet analyzer, is mainly utilized by network administrators and security analysts to analyze network packets and resolve issues, making it a valuable tool for organizations across various industries.
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Network administrators and security experts use the packet analyzer Wireshark to investigate network traffic and identify problems, making it an invaluable resource for businesses of all stripes.
Wireshark 4.0.7 – Vulnerabilities Addressed:
We have listed the fixed security issues below:-
Bugs Patched:
- Crash when (re)loading a capture file after renaming a dfilter macro. Issue 13753.
- Moving a column deselects selected packet and moves to beginning of packet list. Issue 16251.
- If you set the default interface in the preferences, it doesn’t work with TShark. Issue 16593.
- Severe performance issues in Follow → Save As raw workflow. Issue 17313.
- TShark doesn’t support the tab character as an aggregator character in ”-T fields” Issue 18002.
- On Windows clicking on a link in the ‘Software Update’ window launches, now unsupported, MS Internet Explorer. Issue 18488.
- Wireshark 4.x.x on Win10-x64 crashes after saving a file with a name already in use. Issue 18679.
- NAS-5GS Operator-defined Access Category: Multiple Criteria values not displayed in dissected packet display. Issue 18941.
- Server Hello Packet Invisible – during 802.1x Authentication- from Wireshark App Version 4.0.3 (v4.0.3-0-gc552f74cdc23) & above. Issue 19071.
- TShark reassembled data is incomplete/truncated. Issue 19107.
- CQL protocol parsing issues with
Resultframes from open source Cassandra. Issue 19119. - TLS 1.3 second Key Update doesn’t work. Issue 19120.
- HTTP2 dissector reports an assertion error on large data frames. Issue 19121.
- epan: Single letter hostnames aren’t displayed correctly. Issue 19137.
- BLF: CAN-FD-Message format is missing a field. Issue 19146.
- BLF: last parameter of LIN-Message is not mandatory (BUGFIX) Issue 19147.
- PPP IPv6CP: Incorrect payload length warning. Issue 19149.
- INSTALL file needs to be updated for Debian. Issue 19167.
- Some RTP streams make Wireshark crash when trying to play stream. Issue 19170.
- Wrong ordering in OpenFlow 1.0 Datapath unique ID. Issue 19172.
- Incorrect mask in RTCP slice picture ID. Issue 19182.
- Dissection error in AMQP 1.0. Issue 19191.
Updated Protocol Support
9P, AMQP, BGP, CQL, DHCPFO, EAP, GlusterFS, GSM MAP, HTTP2, iSCSI, Kafka, Kerberos, NAN, NAS-5GS, OCP.1, OpenFlow 1.0, PDCP-NR, PEAP, PPPoE, RSL, RTCP, rtnetlink, and XMPP.
For more information on the release, visit the Wireshark 4.0.7 release notes page.




