#12599: libpcap-1.9.1
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Reporter: renodr | Owner: bdubbs
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: high | Milestone: 9.1
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Changes (by bdubbs):
* priority: normal => high
Comment:
Sunday, July 22, 2018
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Summary for 1.9.1 libpcap release
Mention pcap_get_required_select_timeout() in the main pcap man page
Fix pcap-usb-linux.c build on systems with musl
Fix assorted man page and other documentation issues
Plug assorted memory leaks
Documentation changes to use https:
Changes to how time stamp calculations are done
Lots of tweaks to make newer compilers happier and warning-free and
to fix instances of C undefined behavior
Warn if AC_PROG_CC_C99 can't enable C99 support
Rename pcap_set_protocol() to pcap_set_protocol_linux().
Align pcap_t private data on an 8-byte boundary.
Fix various error messages
Use 64-bit clean API in dag_findalldevs()
Fix cleaning up after some errors
Work around some ethtool ioctl bugs in newer Linux kernels (GitHub
issue #689)
Add backwards compatibility sections to some man pages (GitHub issue
#745)
Fix autotool configuration on AIX and macOS
Don't export bpf_filter_with_aux_data() or struct bpf_aux_data;
they're internal-only and subject to change
Fix pcapng block size checking
On macOS, don't build rpcapd or test programs any fatter than they
need to be
Fix reading of capture statistics for Linux USB
Fix packet size values for Linux USB packets (GitHub issue #808)
Check only VID in VLAN test in filterss (GitHub issue #461)
Fix pcap_list_datalinks on 802.11 devices on macOS
Fix overflows with very large snapshot length in pcap file
Improve parsing of rpcapd configuration file (GitHub issue #767)
Handle systems without strlcpy() or strlcat() better
Fix crashes and other errors with invalid filter expressions
Fix use of uninitialized file descriptor in remote capture
Fix some CMake issues
Fix some divide-by-zero issues with the filter compiler
Work around a GNU libc bug in pcap_nametonetaddr()
Add support for DLT_LINUX_SLL2
Fix handling of the packet-count argument for Myricom SNF devices
Fix --disable-rdma in configure script (GitHub issue #782)
Fix compilation of TurboCap support (GitHub issue #764)
Constify first argument to pcap_findalldevs_ex()
Fix a number of issues when running rpcapd as an inetd-style daemon
Fix CMake issues with D-Bus libraries
In rpcapd, clean up termination of a capture session
Redo remote capture protocol negotiation
In rpcapd, report the same error for "invalid user name" and
"invalid password", to make brute-forcing harder
For remote captures, add an error code for "the server requires TLS"
Fix pcap_dump_fopen() on Windows to avoid clashes between
{Win,N}Pcap and application C runtimes
Fix exporting of functions from Windows DLLs (GitHub issue #810)
Fix building as part of Npcap
Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly
Fix building shared libpcap library on midipix (midipix.org)
Fix hack to detect UTF-16LE adapter names on Windows not to go past
the end of the string
Fix handling of "wireless WAN" (mobile phone network modems) on
Windows with WinPcap/Npcap (GitHub issue #824)
Have pcap_dump_open_append() create the dump file if it doesn't
exists (GitHub issue #247)
Fix the maxmum snapshot length for DLT_USBPCAP
Use -fPIC when building for 64-bit SPARC on Linux (GitHub issue #837)
Fix CMake 64-bit library installation directory on some Linux
distributions
Boost the TPACKET_V3 timeout to the maximum if a timeout of 0 was
specified
Five CVE-2019-15161, CVE-2019-15162, CVE-2019-15163, CVE-2019-15164,
CVE-2019-15165
Fixes for CVE-2018-16301, errors in pcapng reading.
PCAPNG reader applies some sanity checks before doing malloc().
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