Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] Wireshark 4.4.4 is now available

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:29:47 -0800
I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 4.4.4.


 What is Wireshark?

  Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is
  used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.

  Wireshark is hosted by the Wireshark Foundation, a nonprofit which
  promotes protocol analysis education. Wireshark and the foundation
  depend on your contributions in order to do their work. If you or your
  organization would like to contribute or become a sponsor, please
  visit wiresharkfoundation.org[1].

 What’s New

  Bug Fixes

   The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

     • wnpa-sec-2025-01[2] Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector
       crash. Issue 20373[3].

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     • Crash when sorting columns during capture with display filter
       active. Issue 20263[4].

     • OSS-Fuzz 384757274: Invalid-bool-value in dissect_tcp. Issue
       20300[5].

     • Test failure in 4.4.2/4.4.3: test_sharkd_req_follow_http2. Issue
       20330[6].

     • Regression in extcap interface toolbar. Issue 20354[7].

     • Clicking outside columns in TCP tab of Statistics → Conversations
       window causes crash. Issue 20357[8].

     • FTBFS with Ubuntu development (25.04) release. Issue 20359[9].

     • DNS enable_qname_stats crash Wireshark when QDCOUNT == 0. Issue
       20367[10].

     • Windows: Android extcap plugin fails with "Broken socket
       connection" if there are no new packets for 2sec. Issue
       20386[11].

     • TECMP: Calculation of lifecycle start in Status message is wrong.
       Issue 20387[12].

     • MQTT v5.0 properties total length presentation is incorrect.
       Issue 20389[13].

     • TShark doesn’t resolve addresses in custom "hosts" files. Issue
       20391[14].

     • Incorrect JA4 fingerprint with empty ciphers. Issue 20394[15].

  New and Updated Features

  New Protocol Support

   There are no new protocols in this release.

  Updated Protocol Support

   CESoETH, DNS, IEEE 1609.2, ISOBUS, ITS, MPLS, MQTT, PDU Transport,
   RTP, TCP, TECMP, WebSocket, and WSMP

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   CLLog, EMS, and ERF

  Updated File Format Decoding Support

   There is no updated file format support in this release.

 Prior Versions

  Wireshark 4.4.3 included the following changes. See the release
  notes[16] for details:

    • Potential mis-match in GSM MAP dissector for uncertainty radius
      and its filter key. Issue 20247[17].

    • Macro eNodeB ID and Extended Macro eNodeB ID not decoded by User
      Location Information. Issue 20276[18].

    • The NFSv2 Dissector appears to be swapping Character Special File
      and Directory in mode decoding. Issue 20290[19].

    • CMake discovers Strawberry Perl’s zlib DLL when it shouldn’t.
      Issue 20304[20].

    • VOIP Calls call flow displaying hours. Issue 20311[21].

    • Fuzz job issue: fuzz-2024-12-26-7898.pcap. Issue 20313[22].

    • sFlow: Incorrect length passed to header sample dissector. Issue
      20320[23].

    • wsutil: Should link against -lm due to missing fabs() when built
      with -fno-builtin. Issue 20326[24].

  Wireshark 4.4.2 included the following changes. See the release
  notes[25] for details:

    • wnpa-sec-2024-14[26] FiveCo RAP dissector infinite loop. Issue
      20176[27].

    • wnpa-sec-2024-15[28] ECMP dissector crash. Issue 20214[29].

    • CIP I/O is not detected by "enip" filter anymore. Issue 19517[30].

    • Fuzz job issue: fuzz-2024-09-03-7550.pcap. Issue 20041[31].

    • OSS-Fuzz 71476: wireshark:fuzzshark_ip_proto-udp:
      Index-out-of-bounds in DOFObjectID_Create_Unmarshal. Issue
      20065[32].

    • JA4_c hashes an empty field to e3b0c44298fc when it should be
      000000000000. Issue 20066[33].

    • Opening Wireshark 4.4.0 on macOS 15.0 disconnects iPhone
      Mirroring. Issue 20082[34].

    • PTP analysis loses track of message associations in case of
      sequence number resets. Issue 20099[35].

    • USB CCID: response packet in case SetParameters command is
      unsupported is flagged as malformed. Issue 20107[36].

    • dumpcap crashes when run from TShark with a capture filter. Issue
      20108[37].

    • SRT dissector: The StreamID (SID) in the handshake extension is
      displayed without regarding the control characters and with NUL as
      terminating. Issue 20113[38].

    • Ghost error message on POP3 packets. Issue 20124[39].

    • Building against c-ares 1.34 fails. Issue 20125[40].

    • D-Bus is not optional anymore. Issue 20126[41].

    • macOS Intel DMGs aren’t fully notarized. Issue 20129[42].

    • Incorrect name for MLD Capabilities and Operations Present flag in
      dissection of MLD Capabilities for MLO wifi-7 capture. Issue
      20134[43].

    • CQL Malformed Packet v4 S → C Type RESULT: Prepared[Malformed
      Packet] Issue 20142[44].

    • Wi-Fi: 256 Block Ack (BA) is not parsed properly. Issue 20156[45].

    • BACnet ReadPropertyMultiple request Maximum allowed recursion
      depth reached. Issue 20159[46].

    • Statistics→I/O Graph crashes when using simple moving average.
      Issue 20163[47].

    • HTTP2 body decompression fails on DATA with a single padded frame.
      Issue 20167[48].

    • Compiler warning for ui/tap-rtp-common.c (ignoring return value)
      Issue 20169[49].

    • SIP dissector bug due to "be-route" param in VIA header. Issue
      20173[50].

    • Coredump after trying to open 'Follow TCP stream' Issue 20174[51].

    • Protobuf JSON mapping error. Issue 20182[52].

    • Display filter "!stp.pvst.origvlan in { vlan.id }" causes a crash
      (Version 4.4.1) Issue 20183[53].

    • Extcap plugins shipped with Wireshark Portable are not found in
      version 4.4.1. Issue 20184[54].

    • IEEE 802.11be: Wrong regulatory info in HE Operation IE in Beacon
      frame. Issue 20187[55].

    • Wireshark 4.4.1 does not decode RTCP packets. Issue 20188[56].

    • Qt: Display filter sub-menu can only be opened on the triangle,
      not the full name. Issue 20190[57].

    • Qt: Changing the display filter does not update the Conversations
      or Endpoints dialogs. Issue 20191[58].

    • MODBUS Dissector bug. Issue 20192[59].

    • Modbus dissector bug - Field Occurence and Layer Operator
      modbus.bitval field. Issue 20193[60].

    • Wireshark crashes when a field is dragged from packet details
      towards the find input. Issue 20204[61].

    • Lua DissectorTable("") : set ("10,11") unexpected behavior in
      locales with comma as decimal separator. Issue 20216[62].

  The TCP dissector no longer falls back to using the client port as a
  criterion for selecting a payload dissector when the server port does
  not select a payload dissector (except for port 20, active FTP). This
  behavior can be changed using the "Client port dissectors" preference.

  Display filters now correctly handle floating point conversion errors.

  The Lua API now has better support for comma-separated ranges in
  different locales.

  Wireshark 4.4.1 included the following changes. See the release
  notes[63] for details:

    • wnpa-sec-2024-12[64] ITS dissector crash. Issue 20026[65].

    • wnpa-sec-2024-13[66] AppleTalk and RELOAD Framing dissector
      crashes. Issue 20114[67].

    • Refresh interface during live-capture leads to corrupt interface
      handling. Issue 11176[68].

    • Media type "application/octet-stream" registered for both Thread
      and UASIP. Issue 14729[69].

    • Extcap toolbar stops working when new interface is added. Issue
      19854[70].

    • Decoding error ITS CPM version 2.1.1. Issue 19886[71].

    • Build error in 4.3.0: sync_pipe_run_command_actual error: argument
      2 is null but the corresponding size argument 3 value is 512004
      [-Werror=nonnull] Issue 19930[72].

    • html2text.py doesn’t handle the `<sup>` tag. Issue 20020[73].

    • Incorrect NetFlow v8 TOS AS aggregation dissection. Issue
      20021[74].

    • The Windows packages don’t ship with the IP address plugin. Issue
      20030[75].

    • O_PATH is Linux-and-FreeBSD-specific. Issue 20031[76].

    • Wireshark 4.4.0 doesn’t install USBcap USBcapCMD.exe in the
      correct directory. Issue 20040[77].

    • OER dissector is not considering the preamble if ASN.1 SEQUENCE
      definition includes extension marker but no OPTIONAL items. Issue
      20044[78].

    • Bluetooth classic L2CAP incorrect dissection with connectionless
      reception channel. Issue 20047[79].

    • Profile auto switch filters : Grayed Display Filter Expression
      dialog box when opened from Configuration Profiles dialog box.
      Issue 20049[80].

    • Wireshark 4.4.0 / macOS 14.6.1 wifi if monitor mode. Issue
      20051[81].

    • TECMP Data Type passes too much data to sub dissectors. Issue
      20052[82].

    • Wireshark and tshark 4.4.0 ignore extcap options specified on the
      command line. Issue 20054[83].

    • Cannot open release notes due to incorrect path with duplicated
      directory components. Issue 20055[84].

    • Unable to open "Release Notes" from the "Help" menu. Issue
      20056[85].

    • No capture interfaces if Wireshark is started from command line
      with certain paths. Issue 20057[86].

    • Wireshark 4.4.0 extcap path change breaks third party extcap
      installers. Issue 20069[87].

    • Fuzz job UTF-8 encoding issue: fuzz-2024-09-10-7618.pcap. Issue
      20071[88].

    • Unable to create larger files than 99 size units. Issue 20079[89].

    • Opening Wireshark 4.4.0 on macOS 15.0 disconnects iPhone
      Mirroring. Issue 20082[90].

    • PRP trailer not shown for L2 IEC 61850 GOOSE packets in 4.4.0 (was
      working in 4.2.7) Issue 20088[91].

    • GUI lags because NetworkManager keeps turning 802.11 monitor mode
      off. Issue 20090[92].

    • Error while getting Bluetooth application process id by <shell:ps
      -A | grep com.*android.bluetooth> Issue 20100[93].

    • Fuzz job assertion: randpkt-2024-10-05-7200.pcap. Issue 20110[94].

  Wireshark 4.4.0 included the following changes. See the release
  notes[95] for details:

  Many improvements and fixes to the graphing dialogs, including I/O
  Graphs, Flow Graph / VoIP Calls, and TCP Stream Graphs.

  Wireshark now supports automatic profile switching. You can associate
  a display filter with a configuration profile, and when you open a
  capture file that matches the filter, Wireshark will automatically
  switch to that profile.

  Support for Lua 5.3 and 5.4 has been added, and support for Lua 5.1
  and 5.2 has been removed. The Windows and macOS installers now ship
  with Lua 5.4.6.

  Improved display filter support for value strings (optional string
  representations for numeric fields).

  Display filter functions can be implemented as plugins, similar to
  protocol dissectors and file parsers.

  Display filters can be translated to pcap filters using "Edit › Copy ›
  Display filter as pcap filter" if each display filter field has a
  corresponding pcap filter equivalent.

  Custom columns can be defined using any valid field expression, such
  as display filter functions, packet slices, arithmetic calculations,
  logical tests, raw byte addressing, and protocol layer modifiers.

  Custom output fields for `tshark -e` can also be defined using any
  valid field expression.

  Wireshark can be built with the zlib-ng instead of zlib for compressed
  file support. Zlib-ng is substantially faster than zlib. The official
  Windows and macOS packages include this feature.

 Getting Wireshark

  Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
  https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.

  Vendor-supplied Packages

   Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You
   can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management
   system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can
   be found on the download page[96] on the Wireshark web site.

 File Locations

  Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
  preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These
  locations vary from platform to platform. You can use "Help › About
  Wireshark › Folders" or `tshark -G folders` to find the default
  locations on your system.

 Getting Help

  The User’s Guide, manual pages and various other documentation can be
  found at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/

  Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site[97] and on the
  wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives
  for all of Wireshark’s mailing lists can be found on the mailing list
  site[98].

  Bugs and feature requests can be reported on the issue tracker[99].

  You can learn protocol analysis and meet Wireshark’s developers at
  SharkFest[100].

 How You Can Help

  The Wireshark Foundation helps as many people as possible understand
  their networks as much as possible. You can find out more and donate
  at wiresharkfoundation.org[101].

 Frequently Asked Questions

  A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[102].

 References

   1. https://wiresharkfoundation.org
   2. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2025-01
   3. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20373
   4. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20263
   5. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20300
   6. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20330
   7. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20354
   8. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20357
   9. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20359
  10. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20367
  11. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20386
  12. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20387
  13. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20389
  14. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20391
  15. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20394
  16. https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.4.3.html
  17. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20247
  18. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20276
  19. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20290
  20. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20304
  21. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20311
  22. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20313
  23. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20320
  24. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20326
  25. https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.4.2.html
  26. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2024-14
  27. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20176
  28. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2024-15
  29. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20214
  30. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19517
  31. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20041
  32. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20065
  33. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20066
  34. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20082
  35. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20099
  36. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20107
  37. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20108
  38. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20113
  39. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20124
  40. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20125
  41. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20126
  42. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20129
  43. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20134
  44. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20142
  45. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20156
  46. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20159
  47. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20163
  48. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20167
  49. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20169
  50. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20173
  51. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20174
  52. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20182
  53. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20183
  54. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20184
  55. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20187
  56. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20188
  57. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20190
  58. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20191
  59. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20192
  60. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20193
  61. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20204
  62. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20216
  63. https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.4.1.html
  64. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2024-12
  65. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20026
  66. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2024-13
  67. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20114
  68. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/11176
  69. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/14729
  70. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19854
  71. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19886
  72. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19930
  73. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20020
  74. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20021
  75. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20030
  76. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20031
  77. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20040
  78. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20044
  79. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20047
  80. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20049
  81. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20051
  82. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20052
  83. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20054
  84. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20055
  85. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20056
  86. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20057
  87. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20069
  88. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20071
  89. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20079
  90. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20082
  91. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20088
  92. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20090
  93. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20100
  94. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20110
  95. https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.4.0.html
  96. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
  97. https://ask.wireshark.org/
  98. https://lists.wireshark.org/lists/
  99. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues
  100. https://sharkfest.wireshark.org
  101. https://wiresharkfoundation.org
  102. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html


Digests

wireshark-4.4.4.tar.xz: 46845832 bytes
SHA256(wireshark-4.4.4.tar.xz)=5154d2b741ec928b1bdb5eba60e29536f78907b21681a7fe18c652f4db44b1f1
SHA1(wireshark-4.4.4.tar.xz)=f9eae804b248bbfb928eb36bae8c31a96998771c

Wireshark-4.4.4-arm64.exe: 68763208 bytes
SHA256(Wireshark-4.4.4-arm64.exe)=68c6d3ab4656e8d8d0f4e63a9000aeaf6d7f0a61493f4031e891618a189298b0
SHA1(Wireshark-4.4.4-arm64.exe)=9e2eebd9d24d4ac6d5e81fc4eb1a9c9d9041eb1a

Wireshark-4.4.4-x64.exe: 87303952 bytes
SHA256(Wireshark-4.4.4-x64.exe)=7511107872088965cc781fe877f79371fee441bdcfeae28ab78faa591f780a51
SHA1(Wireshark-4.4.4-x64.exe)=0065bf07c94426a3210e1b2314dfbe8de458507d

Wireshark-4.4.4-x64.msi: 63881216 bytes
SHA256(Wireshark-4.4.4-x64.msi)=425e2175bb5b31a2cfe60f34696cfacfdee73ff13692bea1c2eddc1e859c5db1
SHA1(Wireshark-4.4.4-x64.msi)=f51c8687c283e2111473490c8626e6375f3e7aac

WiresharkPortable64_4.4.4.paf.exe: 64449856 bytes
SHA256(WiresharkPortable64_4.4.4.paf.exe)=863aa32ebc8090dfb358345c16467619c284c4303472e37ee0e94fc10d4727ed
SHA1(WiresharkPortable64_4.4.4.paf.exe)=a1a245542356157a86d81f09db2d640f27f99489

Wireshark 4.4.4 Arm 64.dmg: 65447441 bytes
SHA256(Wireshark 4.4.4 Arm 64.dmg)=24cdce2f5869653b98032e8f6f06a08bd4f4899f178a27eb6d751fc27ac9cb47
SHA1(Wireshark 4.4.4 Arm 64.dmg)=6ba4d0c608e709902f9bb8db1e5cb23d8dea6da2

Wireshark 4.4.4 Intel 64.dmg: 69174110 bytes
SHA256(Wireshark 4.4.4 Intel 64.dmg)=46b267bdd78222aa272937a65fa91b09c3755bc0ec01fa52e8b63984699c0afb
SHA1(Wireshark 4.4.4 Intel 64.dmg)=28ed35eb30051820eb4cc1ecc006d4eff0ce2209

You can validate these hashes using the following commands (among others):

    Windows: certutil -hashfile Wireshark-win64-x.y.z.exe SHA256
    Linux (GNU Coreutils): sha256sum wireshark-x.y.z.tar.xz
    macOS: shasum -a 256 "Wireshark x.y.z Arm 64.dmg"
    Other: openssl sha256 wireshark-x.y.z.tar.xz

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