The new Wireshark 3.2.3 fixes vulnerabilities and updates protocols

The Wireshark 3.2.3 released and comes with corrections for various vulnerabilities. Some of them create a problem in BACapp dissector.

Wireshark is the most popular protocol analyst network in the world. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, programming and education.

Used by network administrators to troubleshoot network and by analysts security to examine data. Wireshark is used by many organizations.

For users MacOS with Wireshark version 3.2.0, automatic updates may not be performed. The users must install "manual" updates (manually) to make sure they stay safe.

Vulnerability corrections

As mentioned above, there is one vulnerability that affects it BACapp dissector. An attacker could exploit vulnerability by introducing one malicious network package and deceive network administrators, leading to cracking of the BACapp dissector.

Vulnerability can be corrected by upgrading to versions 3.2.3, 3.0.10, 2.6.16 or some later.

Protocol Update and File Support

Protocol update: AFS, BACapp, Bluetooth, CoAP, Diameter3GPP, F5 Ethernet trailer, GSM RLC MAC, ISIS, ISIS CLV, ISIS HELLO, ISIS LSP, ISIS SNP, NAS 5GS, NR RRC, pcap, QUIC, RPCAPE, RTC / IP-SD, TLS, and WSP.

Correction of other errors

The new version of Wireshark includes corrections for many more errors, which cause different problems. The errors are listed below (more details on each error can be found in the references).

• Error 13881
• Error 15966
• Error 16202
• Error 16281
• Error 16323
• Error 16410
• Error 16414
• Error 16416
• Error 16417
• Error 16424
• Error 16429
• Error 16434
• Error 16445
• Error 16448
• Error 16457
• Error 16472
• Error 16477

If you are interested, you can download the new version of Wireshark 3.2.3 from here.

Education

As we said above, education is also offered. There is the Master in Wireshark Network Analysis, which helps someone get a complete training in network protocol analysis with Wireshark.