1 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
2 Summary for 5.0.0 tcpdump release (so far!)
3 Refine protocol decoding for:
4 BFD: Add support for S-BFD and spell LAG in uppercase.
5 BGP: Parse BGP extended message support capability
6 BGP: Deprecate DPA, ADVERTISER and RCID_PATH path attributes
7 BGP: Print Enhanced route refresh capability
8 BGP: Print enhanced route refresh message subtype
9 BGP: Parse rfc9072 (Extended Optional Parameters Length for BGP OPEN Message)
10 BGP: Add support for BFD cease subcode
11 BGP: Add support for Hard Reset notification and GR N flag
12 BGP: Handle ORF in Route-Refresh messages
13 BGP: add dissector for BGPsec capability and path
14 BGP: Add Origin Validation State extended community
15 BGP: Add support for BGP Role capability and OTC attribute
16 BGP: Fix most printing code to print directly rather than filling
17 in a fixed-size buffer to be printed later
18 ICMP: add dissector for ICMP Interface Identification Object
19 IEEE 802.11: include the Mesh ID field while printing management
21 NetFlow: Use tcp_flag_values[] for TCP flags.
22 NTP: Check that the entire extension field is in the capture even
24 MPTCP: parse MPC data_len field, print flags from MP_CAPABLE option.
25 OSPF: Fix printing of Traffic Engineering Link TLVs to correctly
26 advance the packet data pointer
27 OSPF: Print more truncation indications
28 OSPF: Add more length checks
29 SLL2: Translate interface indices to names on Linux only.
30 TCP: Add support for the AE (AccECN) flag.
32 Add optional unit suffix on -C file size.
33 Add --print-sampling to print every Nth packet instead of all.
34 Add --lengths option to print the captured and original packet lengths.
36 Use %zu when printing a sizeof to squelch compiler warnings
37 Remove unused missing/snprintf.c.
38 Remove unused missing/strdup.c.
39 (FIXME: somebody please wrap the line below just before the release)
40 AODV, AppleTalk, BOOTP, CHDLC, DCCP, EAP, EGP, EIGRP, ForCES, Geneve, GRE, ICMP, Juniper, L2TP, mobile, NetFlow, NFLOG, NTP, OLSR, pflog, PGM, RADIUS, RIP, RSVP, SCTP, SNMP, TCP, UDP, vsock: Modernize packet parsing style
41 DCCP, EGP: Replace custom code with tok2str()
42 UDP: Clean up address and port printing.
43 AppleTalk: Declutter appletalk.h.
44 IEEE 802.11: Simplify handle_action().
45 Provide GET_ macros for 4-byte and 8-byte floating-point numbers
46 and use them rather than custom code
47 Disregard setlinebuf(3), always use setvbuf(3).
49 autoconf: Update install-sh script to the latest available version.
50 autoconf: Remove detection of early IPv6 stacks.
51 Detect OS IPv6 support using AF_INET6 only.
52 Remove all remaining support for BSD/OS, IRIX, {OSF/1, Digital Unix,
53 Tru64 Unix}, SINIX and Ultrix.
54 Fix compiling on GNU/Hurd.
55 Make illumos build warning-free.
56 Fix propagation of cc_werr_cflags() output.
58 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
59 Summary for 4.99.5 tcpdump release (so far!)
61 Use the buffer stack for de-escaping PPP; fixes CVE-2024-2397.
62 Refine protocol decoding for:
63 Arista: Use the test .pcap file from pull request #955 (HwInfo).
64 BGP: Fix an undefined behavior when it tries to parse a too-short packet.
65 CARP: Print the protocol name before any GET_().
66 CDP: only hex-dump unknown TLVs in verbose mode.
67 DHCP: parse the SZTP redirect tag.
68 DHCPv6: client-id/server-id DUID type 2 correction; parse the user class,
69 boot file URL, and SZTP redirect options; add DUID-UUID printing
71 DNS: Detect and correctly handle too-short URI RRs.
72 EAP: Assign ndo_protocol in the eap_print() function.
73 Frame Relay (Multilink) : Fix the Timestamp Information Element printing
74 ICMPv6: Fix printing the Home Agent Address Discovery Reply Message
75 IEEE 802.11: no need for an element ID in the structures for IEs, make
76 the length in the IE structures a u_int, include the "TA" field while
77 printing Block Ack Control frame.
78 IP: Enable TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) support; fix printing invalid
79 cases as invalid, not truncated; use ND_ICHECKMSG_ZU() to test the
81 IPv6: Fix printing invalid cases as invalid, not truncated; use
82 ND_ICHECKMSG_U() to print an invalid version.
83 Kerberos: Print the protocol name, remove a redundant bounds check.
84 lwres: Fix an undefined behavior in pointer arithmetic.
85 OpenFlow 1.0: Fix indentation of PORT_MOD, improve handling of
86 some lengths, and fix handling of snapend.
87 TCP: Test ports < 1024 in port order to select the printer.
88 UDP: Move source port equal BCM_LI_PORT to bottom of long if else chain.
89 UDP: Test ports < 1024 in port order to select the printer.
90 LDP: Add missing fields of the Common Session Parameters TLV and fix the
91 offset for the A&D bits.
92 NFLOG: Use correct AF code points on all OSes.
93 OSPF: Pad TLVs in LS_OPAQUE_TYPE_RI to multiples of 4 bytes.
94 OSPF6: Fix an undefined behavior.
95 pflog: use nd_ types in struct pfloghdr.
96 PPP: Check if there is some data to hexdump.
97 PTP: Fix spelling of type SIGNALING, Parse major and minor version
98 correctly, Print majorSdoId field instead of just the first bit.
99 RIP: Make a couple trivial protocol updates.
100 RPKI-Router: Refine length and bounds checks.
101 RX: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
102 smbutil.c: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
103 SNMP: Fix two undefined behaviors.
104 Text protocols: Fix printing truncation if it is not the case.
105 ZEP: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
106 ZMTP: Replace custom code with bittok2str().
108 Print the supported time stamp types (-J) to stdout instead of stderr.
109 Print the list of data link types (-L) to stdout instead of stderr.
110 Use symmetrical quotation characters in error messages.
111 Update --version option to print 32/64-bit build and time_t size.
113 tcpdump: Fix a memory leak.
114 child_cleanup: reap as many child processes as possible.
115 Ignore failures when setting the default "any" device DLL to LINUX_SLL2.
116 Fix for backends which doesn't support capsicum.
117 Update ND_BYTES_BETWEEN() macro for better accuracy.
118 Update ND_BYTES_AVAILABLE_AFTER() macro for better accuracy.
119 Introduce new ND_ICHECK*() macros to deduplicate more code.
120 Skip privilege dropping when using -Z root on --with-user builds.
121 Add a nd_printjn() function.
122 Make nd_trunc_longjmp() not static inline.
123 Include <time.h> from netdissect.h.
124 Remove init_crc10_table() and the entourage.
125 Initialize tzcode early.
126 Capsicum support: Fix a 'not defined' macro error.
127 Update the "Error converting time" tests for packet times.
128 Building and testing:
129 Add a configure option to help debugging (--enable-instrument-functions)
130 At build time require a proof of suitable snprintf(3) implementation in
131 libc (and document Solaris 9 as unsupported because of that).
132 Makefile.in: Add two "touch .devel" commands in the releasecheck target.
133 autoconf: Get --with-user and --with-chroot right.
134 autoconf: Fix --static-pcap-only test on Solaris 10.
135 autoconf: Add some warning flags for clang 13 or newer.
136 autoconf: Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2024-01-01.
137 autoconf: Add autogen.sh, remove configure and config.h.in and put
138 these generated files in the release tarball.
139 configure: Apply autoupdate 2.69.
140 CMake: improve the comment before project(tcpdump C).
141 Do not require vsnprintf().
142 tests: Use the -tttt option, by default, for the tests.
143 autoconf, CMake: Get the size of a void * and a time_t.
145 Fixed errors in doc/README.Win32.md and renamed it to
148 Friday, April 7, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
149 Summary for 4.99.4 tcpdump release
151 Fix spaces before tabs in indentation.
153 LSP ping: Fix "Unused value" warnings from Coverity.
154 CVE-2023-1801: Fix an out-of-bounds write in the SMB printer.
155 DNS: sync resource types with IANA.
156 ICMPv6: Update the output to show a RPL DAO field name.
157 Geneve: Fix the Geneve UDP port test.
158 Building and testing:
159 Require at least autoconf 2.69.
160 Don't check for strftime(), as it's in C90 and beyond.
161 Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2023-01-01,2023-01-21.
163 man: Document TCP flag names better.
165 Thursday, January 12, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
166 Summary for 4.99.3 tcpdump release
168 PTP: Use the proper values for the control field and print un-allocated
169 values for the message field as "Reserved" instead of "none".
171 smbutil.c: Replace obsolete function call (asctime)
172 Building and testing:
173 cmake: Update the minimum required version to 2.8.12 (except Windows).
174 CI: Introduce and use TCPDUMP_CMAKE_TAINTED.
175 Makefile.in: Add the releasecheck target.
176 Makefile.in: Add "make -s install" in the releasecheck target.
177 Cirrus CI: Run the "make releasecheck" command in the Linux task.
178 Makefile.in: Add the whitespacecheck target.
179 Cirrus CI: Run the "make whitespacecheck" command in the Linux task.
180 Address all shellcheck warnings in update-test.sh.
181 Makefile.in: Get rid of a remain of gnuc.h.
183 Reformat the installation notes (INSTALL.txt) in Markdown.
184 Convert CONTRIBUTING to Markdown.
185 CONTRIBUTING.md: Document the use of "protocol: " in a commit summary.
186 Add a README file for NetBSD.
187 Fix CMake build to set man page section numbers in tcpdump.1
189 Saturday, December 31, 2022 / The Tcpdump Group
190 Summary for 4.99.2 tcpdump release
192 BGP: Update cease notification decoding to RFC 9003.
193 BGP: decode BGP link-bandwidth extended community properly.
194 BGP: Fix parsing the AIGP attribute
195 BGP: make sure the path attributes don't go past the end of the packet.
196 BGP: Shutdown message can be up to 255 bytes length according to rfc9003
197 DSA: correctly determine VID.
198 EAP: fix some length checks and output issues.
199 802.11: Fix the misleading comment regarding "From DS", "To DS" Frame
201 802.11: Fetch the CF and TIM IEs a field at a time.
202 802.15.4, BGP, LISP: fix some length checks, compiler warnings,
203 and undefined behavior warnings.
204 PFLOG: handle LINKTYPE_PFLOG/DLT_PFLOG files from all OSes on all
206 RRCP: support more Realtek protocols than just RRCP.
207 MPLS: show the EXP field as TC, as per RFC 5462.
208 ICMP: redo MPLS Extension code as general ICMP Extension code.
209 VQP: Do not print unknown error codes twice.
210 Juniper: Add some bounds checks.
211 Juniper: Don't treat known DLT_ types as "Unknown".
212 lwres: Fix a length check, update a variable type.
213 EAP: Fix some undefined behaviors at runtime.
214 Ethernet: Rework the length checks, add a length check.
215 IPX: Add two length checks.
216 Zephyr: Avoid printing non-ASCII characters.
217 VRRP: Print the protocol name before any GET_().
218 DCCP: Get rid of trailing commas in lists.
219 Juniper: Report invalid packets as invalid, not truncated.
220 IPv6: Remove an obsolete code in an always-false #if wrapper.
221 ISAKMP: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
222 RADIUS: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
223 TCP: Fix an invalid check.
224 RESP: Fix an invalid check.
225 RESP: Remove an unnecessary test.
226 Arista: Refine the output format and print HwInfo.
227 sFlow: add support for IPv6 agent, add a length check.
228 VRRP: add support for IPv6.
229 OSPF: Update to match the Router Properties registry.
230 OSPF: Remove two unnecessary dereferences.
231 OSPF: Add support bit Nt RFC3101.
232 OSPFv3: Remove two unnecessary dereferences.
233 ICMPv6: Fix output for Router Renumbering messages.
234 ICMPv6: Fix the Node Information flags.
235 ICMPv6: Remove an unused macro and extra blank lines.
236 ICMPv6: Add a length check in the rpl_dio_print() function.
237 ICMPv6: Use GET_IP6ADDR_STRING() in the rpl_dio_print() function.
238 IPv6: Add some checks for the Hop-by-Hop Options header
239 IPv6: Add a check for the Jumbo Payload Hop-by-Hop option.
240 NFS: Fix the format for printing an unsigned int
241 PTP: fix printing of the correction fields
242 PTP: Use ND_LCHECK_U for checking invalid length.
243 WHOIS: Add its own printer source file and printer function
244 MPTCP: print length before subtype inside MPTCP options
245 ESP: Add a workaround to a "use-of-uninitialized-value".
246 PPP: Add tests to avoid incorrectly re-entering ppp_hdlc().
247 PPP: Don't process further if protocol is unknown (-e option).
248 PPP: Change the pointer to packet data.
249 ZEP: Add three length checks.
250 Add some const qualifiers.
251 Building and testing:
252 Update config.guess and config.sub.
253 Use AS_HELP_STRING macro instead of AC_HELP_STRING.
254 Handle some Autoconf/make errors better.
255 Fix an error when cross-compiling.
256 Use "git archive" for the "make releasetar" process.
257 Remove the release candidate rcX targets.
258 Mend "make check" on Solaris 9 with Autoconf.
259 Address assorted compiler warnings.
260 Fix auto-enabling of Capsicum on FreeBSD with Autoconf.
261 Treat "msys" as Windows for test exit statuses.
262 Clean up some help messages in configure.
263 Use unified diff by default.
264 Remove awk code from mkdep.
265 Fix configure test errors with Clang 15
266 CMake: Prevent stripping of the RPATH on installation.
267 AppVeyor CI: update Npcap site, update to 1.12 SDK.
268 Cirrus CI: Use the same configuration as for the main branch.
269 CI: Add back running tcpdump -J/-L and capture, now with Cirrus VMs.
270 Remove four test files (They are now in the libpcap tests directory).
271 On Solaris, for 64-bit builds, use the 64-bit pcap-config.
272 Tell CMake not to check for a C++ compiler.
273 CMake: Add a way to request -Werror and equivalents.
274 configure: Special-case macOS /usr/bin/pcap-config as we do in CMake.
275 configure: Use pcap-config --static-pcap-only if available.
276 configure: Use ac_c_werror_flag to force unknown compiler flags to fail.
277 configure: Use AC_COMPILE_IFELSE() and AC_LANG_SOURCE() for testing
279 Run the test that fails on OpenBSD only if we're not on OpenBSD.
281 Fix some snapend-changing routines to protect against pointer
283 Use __func__ from C99 in some function calls.
284 Memory allocator: Update nd_add_alloc_list() to a static function.
285 addrtoname.c: Fix two invalid tests.
286 Use more S_SUCCESS and S_ERR_HOST_PROGRAM in main().
287 Add some comments about "don't use GET_IP6ADDR_STRING()".
288 Assign ndo->ndo_packetp in pretty_print_packet().
289 Add ND_LCHECKMSG_U, ND_LCHECK_U, ND_LCHECKMSG_ZU and ND_LCHECK_ZU macros.
290 Update tok2strbuf() to a static function.
291 netdissect.h: Keep the link-layer dissectors names sorted.
292 setsignal(): Set SA_RESTART on non-lethal signals (REQ_INFO, FLUSH_PCAP)
293 to avoid corrupting binary pcap output.
294 Use __builtin_unreachable().
295 Fail if nd_push_buffer() or nd_push_snaplen() fails.
296 Improve code style and fix many typos.
298 Some man page cleanups.
299 Update the print interface for the packet count to stdout.
300 Note that we require compilers to support at least some of C99.
301 Update AIX and Solaris-related specifics.
302 INSTALL.txt: Add doc/README.*, delete the deleted win32 directory.
303 Update README.md and README.Win32.md.
304 Update some comments with new RFC numbers.
306 Wednesday, June 9, 2021 by gharris
307 Summary for 4.99.1 tcpdump release
309 Squelch some compiler warnings
310 ICMP: Update the snapend for some nested IP packets.
311 MACsec: Update the snapend thus the ICV field is not payload
313 EIGRP: Fix packet header fields
314 SMB: Disable printer by default in CMake builds
315 OLSR: Print the protocol name even if the packet is invalid
316 MSDP: Print ": " before the protocol name
317 ESP: Remove padding, padding length and next header from the buffer
318 DHCPv6: Update the snapend for nested DHCPv6 packets
319 OpenFlow 1.0: Get snapend right for nested frames.
320 TCP: Update the snapend before decoding a MPTCP option
321 Ethernet, IEEE 802.15.4, IP, L2TP, TCP, ZEP: Add bounds checks
322 ForCES: Refine SPARSEDATA-TLV length check.
323 ASCII/hex: Use nd_trunc_longjmp() in truncation cases
324 GeoNet: Add a ND_TCHECK_LEN() call
325 Replace ND_TCHECK_/memcpy() pairs with GET_CPY_BYTES().
326 BGP: Fix overwrites of global 'astostr' temporary buffer
327 ARP: fix overwrites of static buffer in q922_string().
328 Frame Relay: have q922_string() handle errors better.
329 Building and testing:
330 Rebuild configure script when building release
331 Fix "make clean" for out-of-tree autotools builds
332 CMake: add stuff from CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
334 man: Update a reference as www.cifs.org is gone.
335 man: Update DNS sections
337 Fix a compile error with Sun C
339 Wednesday, December 30, 2020, by mcr@sandelman.ca, denis and fxl.
340 Summary for 4.99.0 tcpdump release
341 CVE-2018-16301: For the -F option handle large input files safely.
342 Improve the contents, wording and formatting of the man page.
343 Print unsupported link-layer protocol packets in hex.
344 Add support for new network protocols and DLTs: Arista, Autosar SOME/IP,
345 Broadcom LI and Ethernet switches tag, IEEE 802.15.9, IP-over-InfiniBand
346 (IPoIB), Linux SLL2, Linux vsockmon, MACsec, Marvell Distributed Switch
347 Architecture, OpenFlow 1.3, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), SSH, WHOIS,
348 ZigBee Encapsulation Protocol (ZEP).
349 Make protocol-specific updates for: AH, DHCP, DNS, ESP, FRF.16, HNCP,
350 ICMP6, IEEE 802.15.4, IPv6, IS-IS, Linux SLL, LLDP, LSP ping, MPTCP, NFS,
351 NSH, NTP, OSPF, OSPF6, PGM, PIM, PPTP, RADIUS, RSVP, Rx, SMB, UDLD,
354 Make SLL2 the default for Linux "any" pseudo-device.
355 Add --micro and --nano shorthands.
356 Add --count to print a counter only instead of decoding.
357 Add --print, to cause packet printing even with -w.
358 Add support for remote capture if libpcap supports it.
359 Display the "wireless" flag and connection status.
360 Flush the output packet buffer on a SIGUSR2.
361 Add the snapshot length to the "reading from file ..." message.
362 Fix local time printing (DST offset in timestamps).
363 Allow -C arguments > 2^31-1 GB if they can fit into a long.
364 Handle very large -f files by rejecting them.
365 Report periodic stats only when safe to do so.
366 Print the number of packets captured only as often as necessary.
367 With no -s, or with -s 0, don't specify the snapshot length with newer
369 Improve version and usage message printing.
370 Building and testing:
371 Install into bindir, not sbindir.
372 autoconf: replace --with-system-libpcap with --disable-local-libpcap.
373 Require the compiler to support C99.
374 Better detect and use various C compilers and their features.
375 Add CMake as the second build system.
376 Make out-of-tree builds more reliable.
377 Use pkg-config to detect libpcap if available.
378 Improve Windows support.
379 Add more tests and improve the scripts that run them.
380 Test both with "normal" and "x87" floating-point.
381 Eliminate dependency on libdnet.
383 Print a proper error message about monitor mode VAP.
384 Use libcasper if available.
385 Fix failure to capture on RDMA device.
386 Include the correct capsicum header.
388 Start the transition to longjmp() for packet truncation handling.
389 Introduce new helper functions, including GET_*(), nd_print_protocol(),
390 nd_print_invalid(), nd_print_trunc(), nd_trunc_longjmp() and others.
391 Put integer signedness right in many cases.
392 Introduce nd_uint*, nd_mac_addr, nd_ipv4 and nd_ipv6 types to fix
393 alignment issues, especially on SPARC.
394 Fix many C compiler, Coverity, UBSan and cppcheck warnings.
395 Fix issues detected with AddressSanitizer.
396 Remove many workarounds for older compilers and OSes.
397 Add a sanity check on packet header length.
398 Add and remove plenty of bounds checks.
399 Clean up pcap_findalldevs() call to find the first interface.
400 Use a short timeout, rather than immediate mode, for text output.
401 Handle DLT_ENC files *not* written on the same OS and byte-order host.
402 Add, and use, macros to do locale-independent case mapping.
403 Use a table instead of getprotobynumber().
404 Get rid of ND_UNALIGNED and ND_TCHECK().
405 Make roundup2() generally available.
406 Resync SMI list against Wireshark.
409 Friday, September 20, 2019, by mcr@sandelman.ca
410 A huge thank you to Denis, Francois-Xavier and Guy who did much of the heavy lifting.
411 Summary for 4.9.3 tcpdump release
412 Fix buffer overflow/overread vulnerabilities:
414 CVE-2018-14468 (FrameRelay)
415 CVE-2018-14469 (IKEv1)
416 CVE-2018-14470 (BABEL)
417 CVE-2018-14466 (AFS/RX)
419 CVE-2018-14462 (ICMP)
420 CVE-2018-14465 (RSVP)
423 CVE-2018-14463 (VRRP)
425 CVE-2018-10103 (SMB - partially fixed, but SMB printing disabled)
426 CVE-2018-10105 (SMB - too unreliably reproduced, SMB printing disabled)
427 CVE-2018-14880 (OSPF6)
430 CVE-2018-16227 (802.11)
431 CVE-2018-16229 (DCCP)
435 CVE-2018-16228 (HNCP)
437 CVE-2019-15167 (VRRP)
438 Fix for cmdline argument/local issues:
439 CVE-2018-14879 (tcpdump -V)
441 Sunday September 3, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
442 Summary for 4.9.2 tcpdump release
443 Do not use getprotobynumber() for protocol name resolution. Do not do
444 any protocol name resolution if -n is specified.
445 Improve errors detection in the test scripts.
446 Fix a segfault with OpenSSL 1.1 and improve OpenSSL usage.
447 Clean up IS-IS printing.
448 Fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities:
449 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
450 CVE-2017-13011 (bittok2str_internal)
451 Fix infinite loop vulnerabilities:
452 CVE-2017-12989 (RESP)
453 CVE-2017-12990 (ISAKMP)
455 CVE-2017-12997 (LLDP)
456 Fix buffer over-read vulnerabilities:
457 CVE-2017-11541 (safeputs)
458 CVE-2017-11542 (PIMv1)
459 CVE-2017-12893 (SMB/CIFS)
460 CVE-2017-12894 (lookup_bytestring)
461 CVE-2017-12895 (ICMP)
462 CVE-2017-12896 (ISAKMP)
463 CVE-2017-12897 (ISO CLNS)
465 CVE-2017-12899 (DECnet)
466 CVE-2017-12900 (tok2strbuf)
467 CVE-2017-12901 (EIGRP)
468 CVE-2017-12902 (Zephyr)
469 CVE-2017-12985 (IPv6)
470 CVE-2017-12986 (IPv6 routing headers)
471 CVE-2017-12987 (IEEE 802.11)
472 CVE-2017-12988 (telnet)
474 CVE-2017-12992 (RIPng)
475 CVE-2017-12993 (Juniper)
477 CVE-2017-12996 (PIMv2)
478 CVE-2017-12998 (ISO IS-IS)
479 CVE-2017-12999 (ISO IS-IS)
480 CVE-2017-13000 (IEEE 802.15.4)
482 CVE-2017-13002 (AODV)
484 CVE-2017-13004 (Juniper)
486 CVE-2017-13006 (L2TP)
487 CVE-2017-13007 (Apple PKTAP)
488 CVE-2017-13008 (IEEE 802.11)
489 CVE-2017-13009 (IPv6 mobility)
490 CVE-2017-13010 (BEEP)
491 CVE-2017-13012 (ICMP)
493 CVE-2017-13014 (White Board)
495 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
496 CVE-2017-13016 (ISO ES-IS)
497 CVE-2017-13017 (DHCPv6)
501 CVE-2017-13021 (ICMPv6)
503 CVE-2017-13023 (IPv6 mobility)
504 CVE-2017-13024 (IPv6 mobility)
505 CVE-2017-13025 (IPv6 mobility)
506 CVE-2017-13026 (ISO IS-IS)
507 CVE-2017-13027 (LLDP)
508 CVE-2017-13028 (BOOTP)
511 CVE-2017-13031 (IPv6 fragmentation header)
512 CVE-2017-13032 (RADIUS)
515 CVE-2017-13035 (ISO IS-IS)
516 CVE-2017-13036 (OSPFv3)
519 CVE-2017-13039 (ISAKMP)
520 CVE-2017-13040 (MPTCP)
521 CVE-2017-13041 (ICMPv6)
522 CVE-2017-13042 (HNCP)
524 CVE-2017-13044 (HNCP)
527 CVE-2017-13047 (ISO ES-IS)
528 CVE-2017-13048 (RSVP)
530 CVE-2017-13050 (RPKI-Router)
531 CVE-2017-13051 (RSVP)
534 CVE-2017-13054 (LLDP)
535 CVE-2017-13055 (ISO IS-IS)
536 CVE-2017-13687 (Cisco HDLC)
537 CVE-2017-13688 (OLSR)
538 CVE-2017-13689 (IKEv1)
539 CVE-2017-13690 (IKEv2)
540 CVE-2017-13725 (IPv6 routing headers)
542 Sunday July 23, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
543 Summary for 4.9.1 tcpdump release
544 CVE-2017-11108/Fix bounds checking for STP.
545 Make assorted documentation updates and fix a few typos in tcpdump output.
546 Fixup -C for file size >2GB (GH #488).
547 Show AddressSanitizer presence in version output.
548 Fix a bug in test scripts (exposed in GH #613).
549 On FreeBSD adjust Capsicum capabilities for netmap.
550 On Linux fix a use-after-free when the requested interface does not exist.
552 Wednesday January 18, 2017 devel.fx.lebail@orange.fr
553 Summary for 4.9.0 tcpdump release
555 Fix some heap overflows found with American Fuzzy Lop by Hanno Boeck and others
556 (More information in the log with CVE-2016-* and CVE-2017-*)
557 Change the way protocols print link-layer addresses (Fix heap overflows
558 in CALM-FAST and GeoNetworking printers)
559 Pass correct caplen value to ether_print() and some other functions
560 Fix lookup_nsap() to match what isonsap_string() expects
561 Clean up relative time stamp printing (Fix an array overflow)
562 Fix some alignment issues with GCC on Solaris 10 SPARC
563 Add some ND_TTEST_/ND_TCHECK_ macros to simplify writing bounds checks
564 Add a fn_printztn() which returns the number of bytes processed
565 Add nd_init() and nd_cleanup() functions. Improve libsmi support
566 Add CONTRIBUTING file
567 Add a summary comment in all printers
568 Compile with more warning options in devel mode if supported (-Wcast-qual, ...)
569 Fix some leaks found by Valgrind/Memcheck
570 Fix a bunch of de-constifications
571 Squelch some Coverity warnings and some compiler warnings
572 Update Coverity and Travis-CI setup
573 Update Visual Studio files
576 Fix capsicum support to work with zerocopy buffers in bpf
577 Try opening interfaces by name first, then by name-as-index
578 Work around pcap_create() failures fetching time stamp type lists
579 Fix a segmentation fault with 'tcpdump -J'
580 Improve addrtostr6() bounds checking
581 Add exit_tcpdump() function
582 Don't drop CAP_SYS_CHROOT before chrooting
583 Fixes issue where statistics not reported when -G and -W options used
586 802.11: Beginnings of 11ac radiotap support
587 802.11: Check the Protected bit for management frames
588 802.11: Do bounds checking on last_presentp before dereferencing it (Fix a heap overflow)
589 802.11: Fix the radiotap printer to handle the special bits correctly
590 802.11: If we have the MCS field, it's 11n
591 802.11: Only print unknown frame type or subtype messages once
592 802.11: Radiotap dBm values get printed as dB; Update a test output accordingly
593 802.11: Source and destination addresses were backwards
594 AH: Add a bounds check
595 AH: Report to our caller that dissection failed if a bounds check fails
596 AP1394: Print src > dst, not dst > src
597 ARP: Don't assume the target hardware address is <= 6 octets long (Fix a heap overflow)
598 ATALK: Add bounds and length checks (Fix heap overflows)
599 ATM: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
600 ATM: Fix an incorrect bounds check
601 BFD: Update specification from draft to RFC 5880
602 BFD: Update to print optional authentication field
603 BGP: Add support for the AIGP attribute (RFC7311)
604 BGP: Print LARGE_COMMUNITY Path Attribute
605 BGP: Update BGP numbers from IANA; Print minor values for FSM notification
606 BOOTP: Add a bounds check
607 Babel: Add decoder for source-specific extension
608 CDP: Filter out non-printable characters
609 CFM: Fixes to match the IEEE standard, additional bounds and length checks
610 CSLIP: Add more bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
611 ClassicalIPoATM: Add a bounds check on LLC+SNAP header (Fix a heap overflow)
612 DHCP: Fix MUDURL and TZ options
613 DHCPv6: Process MUDURL and TZ options
614 DHCPv6: Update Status Codes with RFCs/IANA names
615 DNS: Represent the "DNSSEC OK" bit as "DO" instead of "OK". Add a test case
616 DTP: Improve packet integrity checks
617 EGP: Fix bounds checks
618 ESP: Don't use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() in OpenSSL 1.1.0 or later
619 Ethernet: Add some bounds checking before calling isoclns_print (Fix a heap overflow)
620 Ethernet: Print the Length/Type field as length when needed
621 FDDI: Fix -e output for FDDI
622 FR: Add some packet-length checks and improve Q.933 printing (Fix heap overflows)
623 GRE: Add some bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
624 Geneve: Fix error message with invalid option length; Update list option classes
625 HNCP: Fix incorrect time interval format. Fix handling of IPv4 prefixes
626 ICMP6: Fetch a 32-bit big-endian quantity with EXTRACT_32BITS()
627 IGMP: Add a length check
628 IP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
629 IP: Check before fetching the protocol version (Fix a heap overflow)
630 IP: Don't try to dissect if IP version != 4 (Fix a heap overflow)
631 IP: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
632 IPComp: Check whether we have the CPI before we fetch it (Fix a heap overflow)
633 IPoFC: Fix -e output (IP-over-Fibre Channel)
634 IPv6: Don't overwrite the destination IPv6 address for routing headers
635 IPv6: Fix header printing
636 IPv6: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
637 ISAKMP: Clean up parsing of IKEv2 Security Associations
638 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Add support for Purge Originator Identifier (RFC6232) and test cases
639 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Don't overwrite packet data when checking the signature
640 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Filter out non-printable characters
641 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Fix segmentation faults
642 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
643 ISOCLNS: Add some bounds checks
644 Juniper: Make sure a Juniper header TLV isn't bigger than what's left in the packet (Fix a heap overflow)
645 LLC/SNAP: With -e, print the LLC header before the SNAP header; without it, cut the SNAP header
646 LLC: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
647 LLC: Clean up printing of LLC packets
648 LLC: Fix the printing of RFC 948-style IP packets
649 LLC: Skip the LLC and SNAP headers with -x for 802.11 and some other protocols
650 LLDP: Implement IANA OUI and LLDP MUD option
651 MPLS LSP ping: Update printing for RFC 4379, bug fixes, more bounds checks
652 MPLS: "length" is now the *remaining* packet length
653 MPLS: Add bounds and length checks (Fix a heap overflow)
654 NFS: Don't assume the ONC RPC header is nicely aligned
655 NFS: Don't overflow the Opaque_Handle buffer (Fix a segmentation fault)
656 NFS: Don't run past the end of an NFSv3 file handle
657 OLSR: Add a test to cover a HNA sgw case
658 OLSR: Fix 'Advertised networks' count
659 OLSR: Fix printing of smart-gateway HNAs in IPv4
660 OSPF: Add a bounds check for the Hello packet options
661 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
662 OSPF: Fix a segmentation fault
663 OSPF: Fix printing 'ospf_topology_values' default
664 OTV: Add missing bounds checks
665 PGM: Print the formatted IP address, not the raw binary address, as a string
666 PIM: Add some bounds checking (Fix a heap overflow)
667 PIMv2: Fix checksumming of Register messages
668 PPP: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
669 PPP: Report invalid PAP AACK/ANAK packets
670 Q.933: Add a missing bounds check
671 RADIUS: Add Value 13 "VLAN" to Tunnel-Type attribute
672 RADIUS: Filter out non-printable characters
673 RADIUS: Translate UDP/1700 as RADIUS
674 RESP: Do better checking of RESP packets
675 RPKI-RTR: Add a return value check for "fn_printn" call
676 RPKI-RTR: Remove printing when truncated condition already detected
677 RPL: Fix 'Consistency Check' control code
678 RPL: Fix suboption print
679 RSVP: An INTEGRITY object in a submessage covers only the submessage
680 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop; Add bounds and length checks
681 RSVP: Fix some if statements missing brackets
682 RSVP: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
683 RTCP: Add some bounds checks
684 RTP: Add some bounds checks, fix two segmentation faults
685 SCTP: Do more bounds checking
686 SFLOW: Fix bounds checking
687 SLOW: Fix bugs, add checks
688 SMB: Before fetching the flags2 field, make sure we have it
689 SMB: Do bounds checks on NBNS resource types and resource data lengths
690 SNMP: Clean up the "have libsmi but no modules loaded" case
691 SNMP: Clean up the object abbreviation list and fix the code to match them
692 SNMP: Do bounds checks when printing character and octet strings
693 SNMP: Improve ASN.1 bounds checks
694 SNMP: More bounds and length checks
695 STP: Add a bunch of bounds checks, and fix some printing (Fix heap overflows)
696 STP: Filter out non-printable characters
697 TCP: Add bounds and length checks for packets with TCP option 20
698 TCP: Correct TCP option Kind value for TCP Auth and add SCPS-TP
699 TCP: Fix two bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
700 TCP: Make sure we have the data offset field before fetching it (Fix a heap overflow)
701 TCP: Put TCP-AO option decoding right
702 TFTP: Don't use strchr() to scan packet data (Fix a heap overflow)
703 Telnet: Add some bounds checks
704 TokenRing: Fix -e output
705 UDLD: Fix an infinite loop
706 UDP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
707 UDP: Check against the packet length first
708 VAT: Add some bounds checks
709 VTP: Add a test on Mgmt Domain Name length
710 VTP: Add bounds checks and filter out non-printable characters
711 VXLAN: Add a bound check and a test case
712 ZeroMQ: Fix an infinite loop
714 Tuesday October 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca
715 Summary for 4.8.1 tcpdump release
716 Fix "-x" for Apple PKTAP and PPI packets
717 Improve separation frontend/backend (tcpdump/libnetdissect)
718 Fix display of timestamps with -tt, -ttt and -ttttt options
719 Add support for the Marvell Extended Distributed Switch Architecture header
720 Use PRIx64 to print a 64-bit number in hex.
721 Printer for HNCP (RFCs 7787 and 7788).
722 dagid is always an IPv6 address, not an opaque 128-bit string, and other fixes to RPL printer.
723 RSVP: Add bounds and length checks
724 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
725 Handle OpenSSL 1.1.x.
726 Initial support for the REdis Serialization Protocol known as RESP.
727 Add printing function for Generic Protocol Extension for VXLAN
728 draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-01
729 Network Service Header: draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-01
730 Don't recompile the filter if the new file has the same DLT.
731 Pass an adjusted struct pcap_pkthdr to the sub-printer.
732 Add three test cases for already fixed CVEs
734 CVE-2014-8768: Geonet
736 Don't do the DDP-over-UDP heuristic first: GitHub issue #499.
737 Use the new debugging routines in libpcap.
738 Harmonize TCP source or destination ports tests with UDP ones
739 Introduce data types to use for integral values in packet structures.
740 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop
741 Support of Type 3 and Type 4 LISP packets.
742 Don't require IPv6 library support in order to support IPv6 addresses.
743 Many many changes to support libnetdissect usage.
744 Add a test that makes unaligned accesses: GitHub issue #478.
745 add a DNSSEC test case: GH #445 and GH #467.
746 BGP: add decoding of ADD-PATH capability
747 fixes to LLC header printing, and RFC948-style IP packets
749 Friday April 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
750 Summary for 4.7.4 tcpdump release
751 RPKI to Router Protocol: Fix Segmentation Faults and other problems
752 RPKI to Router Protocol: print strings with fn_printn()
753 wb: fix some bounds checks
755 Wednesday March 11, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
756 Summary for 4.7.3 tcpdump release
757 Capsicum fixes for FreeBSD 10
759 Tuesday March 10, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
760 Summary for 4.7.2 tcpdump release
761 DCCP: update Packet Types with RFC4340/IANA names
762 fixes for CVE-2015-0261: IPv6 mobility header check issue
763 fixes for CVE-2015-2153, 2154, 2155: kday packets
765 Friday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
766 Summary for 4.7.0 tcpdump release
767 changes to hex printing of CDP packets
769 Radius: update Packet Type Codes and Attribute Types with RFC/IANA names
770 Add a routine to print "text protocols", and add FTP/HTTP/SMTP/RTSP support.
771 improvements to telnet printer, even if not -v
772 omit length for bcp, print-tcp uses it
773 formatting fixes for a bunch of protocols
774 new bounds checks for a number of protocols
775 split netflow 1,6, and 6 dissector up.
776 added geneve dissector
777 CVE-2014-9140 PPP dissector fixed.
779 Tuesday Sep. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
780 Summary for 4.6.2 tcpdump release
781 fix out-of-source-tree builds: find libpcap that is out of source
782 better configure check for libsmi
784 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
785 Summary for 4.6.1 tcpdump release
786 added FreeBSD capsicum
787 add a short option '#', same as long option '--number'
789 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
790 Summary for 4.6.0 tcpdump release
791 all of tcpdump is now using the new "NDO" code base (Thanks Denis!)
792 nflog, mobile, forces, pptp, AODV, AHCP, IPv6, OSPFv4, RPL, DHCPv6 enhancements/fixes
794 many new test cases: 82 in 4.5.1 to 133 in 4.6.0
795 many improvements to travis continuous integration system: OSX, and Coverity options
796 cleaned up some unnecessary header files
798 a number of unaligned access faults fixed
799 -A flag does not consider CR to be printable anymore
800 fx.lebail took over coverity baby sitting
801 default snapshot size increased to 256K for accommodate USB captures
802 WARNING: this release contains a lot of very worthwhile code churn.
804 Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
805 Summary for 4.5.2 tcpdump release
809 Monday Nov. 11, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca
810 Summary for 4.5.1 tcpdump release
813 Thursday Nov. 7, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca and guy@alum.mit.edu.
814 Summary for 4.5.0 tcpdump release
815 some NFSv4 fixes for printing
816 fix printing of unknown TCP options, and tcp fast-open
817 fixes for syslog parser
818 some gcc-version-specific flag tuning
819 adopt MacOS deprecation workarounds for openssl
820 improvements to babel printing
821 add OpenFlow 1.0 (no SSL) and test cases
823 added STBC Rx support
824 improvements to DHCPv6 decoder
825 clarify which autoconf is needed
826 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
827 than the mcr repository
829 Fixed IPv6 check on Solaris and other OSes requiring extra
830 networking libraries.
831 Add support for VXLAN (draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03),
832 and add "vxlan" as an option for -T.
833 Add support for OTV (draft-hasmit-otv-04).
834 fixes for DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO datalink types
837 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu.
838 Summary for 4.4.0 tcpdump release
839 RPKI-RTR (RFC6810) is now official (TCP Port 323)
840 Fix detection of OpenSSL libcrypto.
841 Add DNSSL (RFC6106) support.
842 Add "radius" as an option for -T.
843 Update Action codes for handle_action function according to
845 Decode DHCPv6 AFTR-Name option (RFC6334).
847 Fix printing of infinite lifetime in ICMPv6.
848 Added support for SPB, SPBM Service Identifier, and Unicast
849 Address sub-TLV in ISIS.
850 Decode RIPv2 authentication up to RFC4822.
851 Fix RIP Request/full table decoding issues.
852 On Linux systems with cap-ng.h, drop root privileges
853 using Linux Capabilities.
854 Add support for reading multiple files.
855 Add MS NLB heartbeat printer.
856 Separate multiple nexthops in BGP.
858 Wednesday November 28, 2012 guy@alum.mit.edu.
859 Summary for 4.3.1 tcpdump release
860 Print "LLDP, length N" for LLDP packets even when not in verbose
861 mode, so something is printed even if only the timestamp is
864 Print NTP poll interval correctly (it's an exponent, so print
865 both its raw value and 2^value)
866 Document that "-e" is used to get MAC addresses
867 More clearly document that you need to escape or quote
868 backslashes in filter expressions on the command line
869 Fix some "the the" in the man page
870 Use the right maximum path length
871 Don't treat 192_1_2, when passed to -i, as an interface number
873 Friday April 3, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca.
874 Summary for 4.3.0 tcpdump release
875 fixes for forces: SPARSE data (per RFC 5810)
876 some more test cases added
877 updates to documentation on -l, -U and -w flags.
878 Fix printing of BGP optional headers.
879 Tried to include DLT_PFSYNC support, failed due to headers required.
881 Fix LLDP Network Policy bit definitions.
882 fixes for IGMPv3's Max Response Time: it is in units of 0.1 second.
883 SIGUSR1 can be used rather than SIGINFO for stats
884 permit -n flag to affect print-ip for protocol numbers
885 ND_OPT_ADVINTERVAL is in milliseconds, not seconds
886 Teach PPPoE parser about RFC 4638
889 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
890 Summary for 4.2.1 tcpdump release
891 Only build the Babel printer if IPv6 is enabled.
892 Support Babel on port 6696 as well as 6697.
893 Include ppi.h in release tarball.
894 Include all the test files in the release tarball, and don't
895 "include" test files that no longer exist.
896 Don't assume we have <rpc/rpc.h> - check for it.
897 Support "-T carp" as a way of dissecting IP protocol 112 as CARP
899 Support Hilscher NetAnalyzer link-layer header format.
900 Constify some pointers and fix compiler warnings.
901 Get rid of never-true test.
902 Fix an unintended fall-through in a case statement in the ARP
904 Fix several cases where sizeof(sizeof(XXX)) was used when just
905 sizeof(XXX) was intended.
906 Make stricter sanity checks in the ES-IS printer.
907 Get rid of some GCCisms that caused builds to fai with compilers
908 that don't support them.
909 Fix typo in man page.
910 Added length checks to Babel printer.
912 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
914 merged 802.15.4 decoder from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov
916 updates to forces for new port numbers
917 Use "-H", not "-h", for the 802.11s option. (-h always help)
918 Better ICMPv6 checksum handling.
919 add support for the RPKI/Router Protocol, per -ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-12
920 get rid of uuencoded pcap test files, git can do binary.
921 sFlow changes for 64-bit counters.
922 fixes for PPI packet header handling and printing.
923 Add DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) version 1.01.
924 Babel dissector, from Juliusz Chroboczek and Grégoire Henry.
925 improvements to radiotap for rate values > 127.
926 Many improvements to ForCES decode, including fix SCTP TML port
927 updated RPL type code to RPL-17 draft
928 Improve printout of DHCPv6 options.
929 added support and test case for QinQ (802.1q VLAN) packets
930 Handle DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS like DLT_IEEE802_15_4.
931 Build fixes for Sparc and other machines with alignment restrictions.
932 Merged changes from Debian package.
933 PGM: Add ACK decoding and add PGMCC DATA and FEEDBACK options.
934 Build fixes for OSX (Snow Leopard and others)
935 Add support for IEEE 802.15.4 packets
937 Tue. July 20, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
938 Summary for 4.1.2 tcpdump release
939 If -U is specified, flush the file after creating it, so it's
941 Fix TCP flags output description, and some typos, in the man
943 Add a -h flag, and only attempt to recognize 802.11s mesh
945 When printing the link-layer type list, send *all* output to
947 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
950 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
951 Summary for 4.1.1 tcpdump release
952 Fix build on systems with PF, such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
953 Don't blow up if a zero-length link-layer address is passed to
956 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
957 Summary for 4.1.0 tcpdump release
958 Fix printing of MAC addresses for VLAN frames with a length
960 Add some additional bounds checks and use the EXTRACT_ macros
962 Add a -b flag to print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT
963 notation rather than ASPLAIN notation
964 Add ICMPv6 RFC 5006 support
965 Decode the access flags in NFS access requests
966 Handle the new DLT_ for memory-mapped USB captures on Linux
967 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
968 Print name of device (when -L is used)
969 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
971 Add support for RPL DIO
972 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
973 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
974 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
975 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
976 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
977 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
978 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
980 Add printer for ForCES
981 Handle frames with an FCS
982 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
983 Fix TCP sequence number printing
984 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
985 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
986 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
987 Lots of code clean ups
989 Update testcases to make output changes
990 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
991 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
993 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
994 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
995 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
996 Add support for 802.11 AVS
997 Add support for SMB over TCP
998 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
999 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
1000 Add support for ikev2 printing
1001 Update support for decoding AFS
1002 Update DHCPv6 printer
1003 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
1004 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
1005 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
1006 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
1008 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
1010 Rework OSPFv3 printer
1011 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
1012 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
1013 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
1014 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
1015 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
1016 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
1017 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
1018 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
1019 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
1020 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
1023 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
1025 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
1027 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
1028 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
1029 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
1030 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
1031 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
1032 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
1033 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
1034 if it got MSG_DENIED.
1035 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
1036 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependency.
1038 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
1039 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
1040 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
1041 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
1042 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
1044 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
1045 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
1046 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
1047 Add support in pflog for additional values
1048 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
1049 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
1050 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
1051 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
1052 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
1053 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
1054 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
1055 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
1056 https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
1057 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
1058 extensions from olsr.org
1059 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
1061 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
1062 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
1063 Add support for the cisco proprietary 'dynamic trunking protocol'
1064 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
1065 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
1068 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
1070 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
1071 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
1072 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
1073 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
1074 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
1075 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
1076 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
1077 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
1078 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
1079 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
1080 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
1081 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
1082 Cleanup the bootp printer
1083 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
1084 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
1085 the options output a bit.
1086 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
1087 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
1088 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
1089 Fixes for 64bit compiling
1090 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
1091 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
1092 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
1093 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
1094 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
1097 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
1098 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
1099 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
1101 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
1103 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
1104 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
1105 object printer to latest spec.
1106 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
1108 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
1109 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
1110 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
1111 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
1112 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
1113 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
1116 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
1118 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
1119 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
1120 including improved 64bit support
1122 Support for sending packets
1123 Many compilation fixes on most platforms
1124 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
1125 Improved Unicode support
1127 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
1129 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
1130 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
1131 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
1133 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
1135 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
1137 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
1143 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
1146 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
1149 Radio - via radiotap
1153 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
1155 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
1158 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
1160 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
1161 https://web.archive.org/web/20160328035955/https://www.rapid7.com/resources/advisories/R7-0017.jsp
1162 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
1163 some MINGW32 changes.
1164 updates for autoconf 2.5
1165 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
1166 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
1167 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
1168 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
1169 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
1170 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
1171 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
1172 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
1173 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
1174 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
1175 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
1177 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
1179 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
1180 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
1182 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
1183 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
1184 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
1185 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
1186 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
1187 PPPoE payload length headers.
1188 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
1189 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
1190 BGP output split into multiple lines.
1191 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
1192 Fixes to PIM decoder.
1193 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
1194 unaligned access work.
1195 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
1196 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
1197 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
1198 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
1199 New -A flag -print ascii only
1200 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
1201 more verbosity for tftp decoder
1204 cross compilation patches
1205 RFC 3561 AODV support.
1206 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
1207 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
1208 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
1209 fixes for DECnet support.
1210 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
1211 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
1213 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
1215 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid isakmp packets.
1216 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
1217 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid BGP packets.
1218 Fixed buffer overflow with certain invalid NFS packets.
1219 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
1220 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
1221 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
1222 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
1223 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
1224 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
1225 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
1227 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
1228 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
1229 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
1230 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
1231 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
1233 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
1234 keyword "ipx" added.
1235 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
1236 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
1237 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
1238 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
1239 improvements to SNAP demux.
1240 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
1241 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
1242 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
1243 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
1244 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
1245 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
1246 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
1247 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
1248 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
1249 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
1250 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
1251 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
1252 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
1253 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
1254 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
1255 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
1256 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
1257 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
1258 Better Linux libc5 compat.
1259 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
1260 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
1261 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
1262 New time stamp formats documented.
1263 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
1264 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
1265 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
1266 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
1267 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
1268 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
1269 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
1270 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
1271 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
1272 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
1273 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
1274 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
1275 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
1276 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
1277 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
1278 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
1279 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
1280 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
1281 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
1282 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
1283 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
1284 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
1285 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
1286 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
1288 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
1290 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
1291 Cleaned up documentation.
1292 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
1293 IPsec changes/cleanups.
1294 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
1296 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
1297 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
1299 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
1300 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
1301 depending upon system dependent mappings of DLT_* types.
1303 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
1305 Updated autoconf stock files.
1307 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
1309 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
1310 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
1312 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
1314 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
1317 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
1318 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
1319 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
1321 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
1322 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
1323 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
1326 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
1328 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
1329 - switch to config.h for autoconf
1330 - unify RCSID strings
1331 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
1332 - Really fix the RIP printer
1333 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
1334 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
1335 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
1336 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
1337 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
1340 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
1341 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
1342 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
1343 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
1344 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
1345 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
1346 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
1348 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
1349 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
1350 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
1352 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
1354 - permit building in different directories.
1356 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
1358 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
1361 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
1364 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
1365 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
1366 change date format to the right one.
1368 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
1369 - Created tcpdump.org repository
1371 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
1373 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
1375 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
1376 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1378 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
1379 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
1381 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
1383 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
1385 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
1388 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
1390 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
1391 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
1394 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
1395 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
1397 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
1400 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
1401 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
1403 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
1406 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
1407 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
1409 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
1410 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
1411 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1413 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
1414 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
1416 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
1419 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
1421 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
1422 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
1424 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
1425 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
1427 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
1430 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
1431 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
1433 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
1435 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
1437 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
1439 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
1440 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
1442 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
1444 - Added Linux support.
1446 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
1449 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
1451 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
1453 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
1454 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
1456 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
1458 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
1461 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
1462 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
1464 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
1465 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
1466 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1468 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
1470 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
1471 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
1473 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
1475 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
1476 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
1477 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
1478 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
1479 first block N times).
1481 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
1482 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
1484 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
1486 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1489 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
1490 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1492 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
1495 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
1496 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
1498 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1500 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
1501 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
1503 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
1504 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1506 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
1507 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
1509 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
1510 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1512 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
1514 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
1515 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
1517 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
1519 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
1520 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1522 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
1523 (steve@research.oknet.com)
1525 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
1526 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1528 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
1530 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
1531 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
1533 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
1534 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1536 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1537 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
1539 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
1541 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
1543 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
1545 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
1546 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
1548 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
1551 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
1553 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
1554 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
1556 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
1558 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1559 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
1562 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1564 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
1565 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
1566 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
1569 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
1571 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
1574 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
1577 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
1579 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
1580 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
1582 - Port to GNU autoconf.
1584 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
1585 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
1587 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
1588 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
1590 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
1592 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
1593 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
1595 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
1597 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
1599 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
1600 (cslater@imatek.com).
1602 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
1604 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
1605 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
1607 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
1608 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
1610 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
1612 - Add support for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1614 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
1615 wrong on little endian machines).
1617 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
1620 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
1621 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
1623 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
1624 selective acknowledgment case.
1626 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
1629 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
1630 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
1633 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
1634 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1636 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
1637 Honig (jhc@bsdi.com)
1640 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
1642 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
1645 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
1646 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
1647 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
1649 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
1650 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1651 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
1653 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
1655 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1657 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
1659 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
1660 "released" one in late 1995.
1662 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
1664 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
1666 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
1667 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
1668 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1670 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
1671 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1673 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
1674 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
1676 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
1677 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
1679 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
1681 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
1683 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
1685 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
1687 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
1689 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
1690 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1692 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
1693 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
1694 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
1695 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
1696 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
1697 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
1698 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
1700 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
1703 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
1704 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
1705 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
1707 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
1710 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
1711 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
1713 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
1714 packaged separately).
1716 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
1718 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
1721 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
1722 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
1724 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
1727 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
1728 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
1730 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
1731 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
1732 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
1733 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
1734 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
1735 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
1736 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
1737 with "not ip proto 4".)
1739 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
1740 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1742 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1744 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
1745 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
1746 Add && and || operators
1748 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
1750 - Fix bug with -c flag.
1752 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
1754 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
1757 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
1758 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
1760 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
1762 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
1763 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
1764 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
1766 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
1767 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
1768 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
1770 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
1771 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
1773 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
1775 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
1777 - Internal release (never publicly exported).
1779 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
1781 - Various byte ordering fixes.
1783 - Add truncation checks.
1785 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
1787 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
1789 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
1791 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
1794 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
1795 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
1797 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
1799 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
1801 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
1803 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
1804 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
1806 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
1808 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
1810 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
1812 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
1814 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
1815 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
1817 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
1818 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
1819 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
1820 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
1822 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
1823 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
1824 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
1825 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
1827 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
1828 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
1829 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
1831 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
1834 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
1836 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
1837 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. tcpdump has been tested under
1838 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
1839 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
1841 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
1843 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
1845 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
1847 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
1848 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
1850 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
1851 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
1853 - IP options are now printed.
1855 - RIP packets are now printed.
1857 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
1858 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
1859 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
1860 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
1862 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
1863 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
1866 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
1867 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
1868 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
1869 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
1872 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
1873 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
1874 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
1875 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
1876 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
1877 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
1878 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
1879 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
1881 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
1883 - Initial public release.