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Wireshark 2.2.5 Is Out as the World’s Most Popular Network Protocol Analyzer

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Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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While Wireshark manages to keep its title as the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer, the development team always tries to improve the application by fixing major security issues and enhancing the protocol support.

Wireshark 2.2.5 is now out as the latest and most advanced version of the open-source and multi-platform application used by numerous network administrators around the globe for network analysis, development, troubleshooting, and education purposes.

The maintenance update addresses a bunch of security vulnerabilities discovered since the January release of Wireshark 2.2.4, including a crash with the LDSS dissector, an infinite loop with the RTMTP dissector, as well as a crash with the NetScaler file parser.

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