1 Monthday, Month DD, YYYY by gharris and denis
2 Summary for 5.0.0 tcpdump release (so far!)
3 Refine protocol decoding for:
4 EIGRP: Get the packet header fields right.
5 OpenFlow 1.0: Fix indentation of PORT_MOD.
6 RIP: Make a couple trivial protocol updates.
7 NetFlow: Use tcp_flag_values[] for TCP flags.
8 OSPF: Update to match the Router Properties registry.
9 MPLS: Rename the "exp" field to "tc".
10 VQP: Do not print unknown error codes twice.
11 ZMTP: Replace custom code with bittok2str().
12 BFD: Add support for S-BFD and spell LAG in uppercase.
13 BGP: Update cease notification decoding to RFC 9003.
15 Add --print-sampling to print every Nth packet instead of all.
17 Use %zu when printing a sizeof to squelch compiler warnings
18 (FIXME: somebody please wrap the line below just before the release)
19 AODV, AppleTalk, BOOTP, EGP, EIGRP, ForCES, Geneve, L2TP, NetFlow, NTP, OLSR, PGM, RIP, RSVP, SCTP, SNMP, TCP, UDP: Modernize packet parsing style
20 DCCP, EGP: Replace custom code with tok2str()
21 UDP: Clean up address and port printing.
22 AppleTalk: Declutter appletalk.h.
23 Introduce new ND_ICHECK*() macros to deduplicate more code.
24 IEEE 802.11: Simplify handle_action().
25 RPKI-Router: Refine length and bounds checks.
27 Treat "msys" as Windows for test exit statuses.
28 Use unified diff by default.
31 Summary for 4.99.2 tcpdump release: (so far)
33 Handle some Autoconf/make errors better.
34 Fix "make releasetar" on AIX and Solaris.
35 Mend "make check" on Solaris 9 with Autoconf.
36 Address assorted compiler warnings.
37 Fix auto-enabling of Capsicum on FreeBSD with Autoconf.
39 Wednesday, June 9, 2021 by gharris
40 Summary for 4.99.1 tcpdump release
42 Squelch some compiler warnings
43 ICMP: Update the snapend for some nested IP packets.
44 MACsec: Update the snapend thus the ICV field is not payload
46 EIGRP: Fix packet header fields
47 SMB: Disable printer by default in CMake builds
48 OLSR: Print the protocol name even if the packet is invalid
49 MSDP: Print ": " before the protocol name
50 ESP: Remove padding, padding length and next header from the buffer
51 DHCPv6: Update the snapend for nested DHCPv6 packets
52 OpenFlow 1.0: Get snapend right for nested frames.
53 TCP: Update the snapend before decoding a MPTCP option
54 Ethernet, IEEE 802.15.4, IP, L2TP, TCP, ZEP: Add bounds checks
55 ForCES: Refine SPARSEDATA-TLV length check.
56 ASCII/hex: Use nd_trunc_longjmp() in truncation cases
57 GeoNet: Add a ND_TCHECK_LEN() call
58 Replace ND_TCHECK_/memcpy() pairs with GET_CPY_BYTES().
59 BGP: Fix overwrites of global 'astostr' temporary buffer
60 ARP: fix overwrites of static buffer in q922_string().
61 Frame Relay: have q922_string() handle errors better.
63 Rebuild configure script when building release
64 Fix "make clean" for out-of-tree autotools builds
65 CMake: add stuff from CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
67 man: Update a reference as www.cifs.org is gone. [skip ci]
68 man: Update DNS sections
70 Fix a compile error with Sun C
72 Wednesday, December 30, 2020, by mcr@sandelman.ca, denis and fxl.
73 Summary for 4.99.0 tcpdump release
74 CVE-2018-16301: For the -F option handle large input files safely.
75 Improve the contents, wording and formatting of the man page.
76 Print unsupported link-layer protocol packets in hex.
77 Add support for new network protocols and DLTs: Arista, Autosar SOME/IP,
78 Broadcom LI and Ethernet switches tag, IEEE 802.15.9, IP-over-InfiniBand
79 (IPoIB), Linux SLL2, Linux vsockmon, MACsec, Marvell Distributed Switch
80 Architecture, OpenFlow 1.3, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), SSH, WHOIS,
81 ZigBee Encapsulation Protocol (ZEP).
82 Make protocol-specific updates for: AH, DHCP, DNS, ESP, FRF.16, HNCP,
83 ICMP6, IEEE 802.15.4, IPv6, IS-IS, Linux SLL, LLDP, LSP ping, MPTCP, NFS,
84 NSH, NTP, OSPF, OSPF6, PGM, PIM, PPTP, RADIUS, RSVP, Rx, SMB, UDLD,
87 Make SLL2 the default for Linux "any" pseudo-device.
88 Add --micro and --nano shorthands.
89 Add --count to print a counter only instead of decoding.
90 Add --print, to cause packet printing even with -w.
91 Add support for remote capture if libpcap supports it.
92 Display the "wireless" flag and connection status.
93 Flush the output packet buffer on a SIGUSR2.
94 Add the snapshot length to the "reading from file ..." message.
95 Fix local time printing (DST offset in timestamps).
96 Allow -C arguments > 2^31-1 GB if they can fit into a long.
97 Handle very large -f files by rejecting them.
98 Report periodic stats only when safe to do so.
99 Print the number of packets captured only as often as necessary.
100 With no -s, or with -s 0, don't specify the snapshot length with newer
102 Improve version and usage message printing.
103 Building and testing:
104 Install into bindir, not sbindir.
105 autoconf: replace --with-system-libpcap with --disable-local-libpcap.
106 Require the compiler to support C99.
107 Better detect and use various C compilers and their features.
108 Add CMake as the second build system.
109 Make out-of-tree builds more reliable.
110 Use pkg-config to detect libpcap if available.
111 Improve Windows support.
112 Add more tests and improve the scripts that run them.
113 Test both with "normal" and "x87" floating-point.
114 Eliminate dependency on libdnet.
116 Print a proper error message about monitor mode VAP.
117 Use libcasper if available.
118 Fix failure to capture on RDMA device.
119 Include the correct capsicum header.
121 Start the transition to longjmp() for packet truncation handling.
122 Introduce new helper functions, including GET_*(), nd_print_protocol(),
123 nd_print_invalid(), nd_print_trunc(), nd_trunc_longjmp() and others.
124 Put integer signedness right in many cases.
125 Introduce nd_uint*, nd_mac_addr, nd_ipv4 and nd_ipv6 types to fix
126 alignment issues, especially on SPARC.
127 Fix many C compiler, Coverity, UBSan and cppcheck warnings.
128 Fix issues detected with AddressSanitizer.
129 Remove many workarounds for older compilers and OSes.
130 Add a sanity check on packet header length.
131 Add and remove plenty of bounds checks.
132 Clean up pcap_findalldevs() call to find the first interface.
133 Use a short timeout, rather than immediate mode, for text output.
134 Handle DLT_ENC files *not* written on the same OS and byte-order host.
135 Add, and use, macros to do locale-independent case mapping.
136 Use a table instead of getprotobynumber().
137 Get rid of ND_UNALIGNED and ND_TCHECK().
138 Make roundup2() generally available.
139 Resync SMI list against Wireshark.
142 Friday, September 20, 2019, by mcr@sandelman.ca
143 A huge thank you to Denis, Francois-Xavier and Guy who did much of the heavy lifting.
144 Summary for 4.9.3 tcpdump release
145 Fix buffer overflow/overread vulnerabilities:
147 CVE-2018-14468 (FrameRelay)
148 CVE-2018-14469 (IKEv1)
149 CVE-2018-14470 (BABEL)
150 CVE-2018-14466 (AFS/RX)
152 CVE-2018-14462 (ICMP)
153 CVE-2018-14465 (RSVP)
156 CVE-2018-14463 (VRRP)
158 CVE-2018-10103 (SMB - partially fixed, but SMB printing disabled)
159 CVE-2018-10105 (SMB - too unreliably reproduced, SMB printing disabled)
160 CVE-2018-14880 (OSPF6)
163 CVE-2018-16227 (802.11)
164 CVE-2018-16229 (DCCP)
168 CVE-2018-16228 (HNCP)
170 CVE-2019-15167 (VRRP)
171 Fix for cmdline argument/local issues:
172 CVE-2018-14879 (tcpdump -V)
174 Sunday September 3, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
175 Summary for 4.9.2 tcpdump release
176 Do not use getprotobynumber() for protocol name resolution. Do not do
177 any protocol name resolution if -n is specified.
178 Improve errors detection in the test scripts.
179 Fix a segfault with OpenSSL 1.1 and improve OpenSSL usage.
180 Clean up IS-IS printing.
181 Fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities:
182 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
183 CVE-2017-13011 (bittok2str_internal)
184 Fix infinite loop vulnerabilities:
185 CVE-2017-12989 (RESP)
186 CVE-2017-12990 (ISAKMP)
188 CVE-2017-12997 (LLDP)
189 Fix buffer over-read vulnerabilities:
190 CVE-2017-11541 (safeputs)
191 CVE-2017-11542 (PIMv1)
192 CVE-2017-12893 (SMB/CIFS)
193 CVE-2017-12894 (lookup_bytestring)
194 CVE-2017-12895 (ICMP)
195 CVE-2017-12896 (ISAKMP)
196 CVE-2017-12897 (ISO CLNS)
198 CVE-2017-12899 (DECnet)
199 CVE-2017-12900 (tok2strbuf)
200 CVE-2017-12901 (EIGRP)
201 CVE-2017-12902 (Zephyr)
202 CVE-2017-12985 (IPv6)
203 CVE-2017-12986 (IPv6 routing headers)
204 CVE-2017-12987 (IEEE 802.11)
205 CVE-2017-12988 (telnet)
207 CVE-2017-12992 (RIPng)
208 CVE-2017-12993 (Juniper)
210 CVE-2017-12996 (PIMv2)
211 CVE-2017-12998 (ISO IS-IS)
212 CVE-2017-12999 (ISO IS-IS)
213 CVE-2017-13000 (IEEE 802.15.4)
215 CVE-2017-13002 (AODV)
217 CVE-2017-13004 (Juniper)
219 CVE-2017-13006 (L2TP)
220 CVE-2017-13007 (Apple PKTAP)
221 CVE-2017-13008 (IEEE 802.11)
222 CVE-2017-13009 (IPv6 mobility)
223 CVE-2017-13010 (BEEP)
224 CVE-2017-13012 (ICMP)
226 CVE-2017-13014 (White Board)
228 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
229 CVE-2017-13016 (ISO ES-IS)
230 CVE-2017-13017 (DHCPv6)
234 CVE-2017-13021 (ICMPv6)
236 CVE-2017-13023 (IPv6 mobility)
237 CVE-2017-13024 (IPv6 mobility)
238 CVE-2017-13025 (IPv6 mobility)
239 CVE-2017-13026 (ISO IS-IS)
240 CVE-2017-13027 (LLDP)
241 CVE-2017-13028 (BOOTP)
244 CVE-2017-13031 (IPv6 fragmentation header)
245 CVE-2017-13032 (RADIUS)
248 CVE-2017-13035 (ISO IS-IS)
249 CVE-2017-13036 (OSPFv3)
252 CVE-2017-13039 (ISAKMP)
253 CVE-2017-13040 (MPTCP)
254 CVE-2017-13041 (ICMPv6)
255 CVE-2017-13042 (HNCP)
257 CVE-2017-13044 (HNCP)
260 CVE-2017-13047 (ISO ES-IS)
261 CVE-2017-13048 (RSVP)
263 CVE-2017-13050 (RPKI-Router)
264 CVE-2017-13051 (RSVP)
267 CVE-2017-13054 (LLDP)
268 CVE-2017-13055 (ISO IS-IS)
269 CVE-2017-13687 (Cisco HDLC)
270 CVE-2017-13688 (OLSR)
271 CVE-2017-13689 (IKEv1)
272 CVE-2017-13690 (IKEv2)
273 CVE-2017-13725 (IPv6 routing headers)
275 Sunday July 23, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
276 Summary for 4.9.1 tcpdump release
277 CVE-2017-11108/Fix bounds checking for STP.
278 Make assorted documentation updates and fix a few typos in tcpdump output.
279 Fixup -C for file size >2GB (GH #488).
280 Show AddressSanitizer presence in version output.
281 Fix a bug in test scripts (exposed in GH #613).
282 On FreeBSD adjust Capsicum capabilities for netmap.
283 On Linux fix a use-after-free when the requested interface does not exist.
285 Wednesday January 18, 2017 devel.fx.lebail@orange.fr
286 Summary for 4.9.0 tcpdump release
288 Fix some heap overflows found with American Fuzzy Lop by Hanno Boeck and others
289 (More information in the log with CVE-2016-* and CVE-2017-*)
290 Change the way protocols print link-layer addresses (Fix heap overflows
291 in CALM-FAST and GeoNetworking printers)
292 Pass correct caplen value to ether_print() and some other functions
293 Fix lookup_nsap() to match what isonsap_string() expects
294 Clean up relative time stamp printing (Fix an array overflow)
295 Fix some alignment issues with GCC on Solaris 10 SPARC
296 Add some ND_TTEST_/ND_TCHECK_ macros to simplify writing bounds checks
297 Add a fn_printztn() which returns the number of bytes processed
298 Add nd_init() and nd_cleanup() functions. Improve libsmi support
299 Add CONTRIBUTING file
300 Add a summary comment in all printers
301 Compile with more warning options in devel mode if supported (-Wcast-qual, ...)
302 Fix some leaks found by Valgrind/Memcheck
303 Fix a bunch of de-constifications
304 Squelch some Coverity warnings and some compiler warnings
305 Update Coverity and Travis-CI setup
306 Update Visual Studio files
309 Fix capsicum support to work with zerocopy buffers in bpf
310 Try opening interfaces by name first, then by name-as-index
311 Work around pcap_create() failures fetching time stamp type lists
312 Fix a segmentation fault with 'tcpdump -J'
313 Improve addrtostr6() bounds checking
314 Add exit_tcpdump() function
315 Don't drop CAP_SYS_CHROOT before chrooting
316 Fixes issue where statistics not reported when -G and -W options used
319 802.11: Beginnings of 11ac radiotap support
320 802.11: Check the Protected bit for management frames
321 802.11: Do bounds checking on last_presentp before dereferencing it (Fix a heap overflow)
322 802.11: Fix the radiotap printer to handle the special bits correctly
323 802.11: If we have the MCS field, it's 11n
324 802.11: Only print unknown frame type or subtype messages once
325 802.11: Radiotap dBm values get printed as dB; Update a test output accordingly
326 802.11: Source and destination addresses were backwards
327 AH: Add a bounds check
328 AH: Report to our caller that dissection failed if a bounds check fails
329 AP1394: Print src > dst, not dst > src
330 ARP: Don't assume the target hardware address is <= 6 octets long (Fix a heap overflow)
331 ATALK: Add bounds and length checks (Fix heap overflows)
332 ATM: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
333 ATM: Fix an incorrect bounds check
334 BFD: Update specification from draft to RFC 5880
335 BFD: Update to print optional authentication field
336 BGP: Add support for the AIGP attribute (RFC7311)
337 BGP: Print LARGE_COMMUNITY Path Attribute
338 BGP: Update BGP numbers from IANA; Print minor values for FSM notification
339 BOOTP: Add a bounds check
340 Babel: Add decoder for source-specific extension
341 CDP: Filter out non-printable characters
342 CFM: Fixes to match the IEEE standard, additional bounds and length checks
343 CSLIP: Add more bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
344 ClassicalIPoATM: Add a bounds check on LLC+SNAP header (Fix a heap overflow)
345 DHCP: Fix MUDURL and TZ options
346 DHCPv6: Process MUDURL and TZ options
347 DHCPv6: Update Status Codes with RFCs/IANA names
348 DNS: Represent the "DNSSEC OK" bit as "DO" instead of "OK". Add a test case
349 DTP: Improve packet integrity checks
350 EGP: Fix bounds checks
351 ESP: Don't use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() in OpenSSL 1.1.0 or later
352 Ethernet: Add some bounds checking before calling isoclns_print (Fix a heap overflow)
353 Ethernet: Print the Length/Type field as length when needed
354 FDDI: Fix -e output for FDDI
355 FR: Add some packet-length checks and improve Q.933 printing (Fix heap overflows)
356 GRE: Add some bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
357 Geneve: Fix error message with invalid option length; Update list option classes
358 HNCP: Fix incorrect time interval format. Fix handling of IPv4 prefixes
359 ICMP6: Fetch a 32-bit big-endian quantity with EXTRACT_32BITS()
360 IGMP: Add a length check
361 IP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
362 IP: Check before fetching the protocol version (Fix a heap overflow)
363 IP: Don't try to dissect if IP version != 4 (Fix a heap overflow)
364 IP: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
365 IPComp: Check whether we have the CPI before we fetch it (Fix a heap overflow)
366 IPoFC: Fix -e output (IP-over-Fibre Channel)
367 IPv6: Don't overwrite the destination IPv6 address for routing headers
368 IPv6: Fix header printing
369 IPv6: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
370 ISAKMP: Clean up parsing of IKEv2 Security Associations
371 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Add support for Purge Originator Identifier (RFC6232) and test cases
372 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Don't overwrite packet data when checking the signature
373 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Filter out non-printable characters
374 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Fix segmentation faults
375 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
376 ISOCLNS: Add some bounds checks
377 Juniper: Make sure a Juniper header TLV isn't bigger than what's left in the packet (Fix a heap overflow)
378 LLC/SNAP: With -e, print the LLC header before the SNAP header; without it, cut the SNAP header
379 LLC: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
380 LLC: Clean up printing of LLC packets
381 LLC: Fix the printing of RFC 948-style IP packets
382 LLC: Skip the LLC and SNAP headers with -x for 802.11 and some other protocols
383 LLDP: Implement IANA OUI and LLDP MUD option
384 MPLS LSP ping: Update printing for RFC 4379, bug fixes, more bounds checks
385 MPLS: "length" is now the *remaining* packet length
386 MPLS: Add bounds and length checks (Fix a heap overflow)
387 NFS: Don't assume the ONC RPC header is nicely aligned
388 NFS: Don't overflow the Opaque_Handle buffer (Fix a segmentation fault)
389 NFS: Don't run past the end of an NFSv3 file handle
390 OLSR: Add a test to cover a HNA sgw case
391 OLSR: Fix 'Advertised networks' count
392 OLSR: Fix printing of smart-gateway HNAs in IPv4
393 OSPF: Add a bounds check for the Hello packet options
394 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
395 OSPF: Fix a segmentation fault
396 OSPF: Fix printing 'ospf_topology_values' default
397 OTV: Add missing bounds checks
398 PGM: Print the formatted IP address, not the raw binary address, as a string
399 PIM: Add some bounds checking (Fix a heap overflow)
400 PIMv2: Fix checksumming of Register messages
401 PPP: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
402 PPP: Report invalid PAP AACK/ANAK packets
403 Q.933: Add a missing bounds check
404 RADIUS: Add Value 13 "VLAN" to Tunnel-Type attribute
405 RADIUS: Filter out non-printable characters
406 RADIUS: Translate UDP/1700 as RADIUS
407 RESP: Do better checking of RESP packets
408 RPKI-RTR: Add a return value check for "fn_printn" call
409 RPKI-RTR: Remove printing when truncated condition already detected
410 RPL: Fix 'Consistency Check' control code
411 RPL: Fix suboption print
412 RSVP: An INTEGRITY object in a submessage covers only the submessage
413 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop; Add bounds and length checks
414 RSVP: Fix some if statements missing brackets
415 RSVP: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
416 RTCP: Add some bounds checks
417 RTP: Add some bounds checks, fix two segmentation faults
418 SCTP: Do more bounds checking
419 SFLOW: Fix bounds checking
420 SLOW: Fix bugs, add checks
421 SMB: Before fetching the flags2 field, make sure we have it
422 SMB: Do bounds checks on NBNS resource types and resource data lengths
423 SNMP: Clean up the "have libsmi but no modules loaded" case
424 SNMP: Clean up the object abbreviation list and fix the code to match them
425 SNMP: Do bounds checks when printing character and octet strings
426 SNMP: Improve ASN.1 bounds checks
427 SNMP: More bounds and length checks
428 STP: Add a bunch of bounds checks, and fix some printing (Fix heap overflows)
429 STP: Filter out non-printable characters
430 TCP: Add bounds and length checks for packets with TCP option 20
431 TCP: Correct TCP option Kind value for TCP Auth and add SCPS-TP
432 TCP: Fix two bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
433 TCP: Make sure we have the data offset field before fetching it (Fix a heap overflow)
434 TCP: Put TCP-AO option decoding right
435 TFTP: Don't use strchr() to scan packet data (Fix a heap overflow)
436 Telnet: Add some bounds checks
437 TokenRing: Fix -e output
438 UDLD: Fix an infinite loop
439 UDP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
440 UDP: Check against the packet length first
441 VAT: Add some bounds checks
442 VTP: Add a test on Mgmt Domain Name length
443 VTP: Add bounds checks and filter out non-printable characters
444 VXLAN: Add a bound check and a test case
445 ZeroMQ: Fix an infinite loop
447 Tuesday October 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca
448 Summary for 4.8.1 tcpdump release
449 Fix "-x" for Apple PKTAP and PPI packets
450 Improve separation frontend/backend (tcpdump/libnetdissect)
451 Fix display of timestamps with -tt, -ttt and -ttttt options
452 Add support for the Marvell Extended Distributed Switch Architecture header
453 Use PRIx64 to print a 64-bit number in hex.
454 Printer for HNCP (RFCs 7787 and 7788).
455 dagid is always an IPv6 address, not an opaque 128-bit string, and other fixes to RPL printer.
456 RSVP: Add bounds and length checks
457 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
458 Handle OpenSSL 1.1.x.
459 Initial support for the REdis Serialization Protocol known as RESP.
460 Add printing function for Generic Protocol Extension for VXLAN
461 draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-01
462 Network Service Header: draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-01
463 Don't recompile the filter if the new file has the same DLT.
464 Pass an adjusted struct pcap_pkthdr to the sub-printer.
465 Add three test cases for already fixed CVEs
467 CVE-2014-8768: Geonet
469 Don't do the DDP-over-UDP heuristic first: GitHub issue #499.
470 Use the new debugging routines in libpcap.
471 Harmonize TCP source or destination ports tests with UDP ones
472 Introduce data types to use for integral values in packet structures.
473 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop
474 Support of Type 3 and Type 4 LISP packets.
475 Don't require IPv6 library support in order to support IPv6 addresses.
476 Many many changes to support libnetdissect usage.
477 Add a test that makes unaligned accesses: GitHub issue #478.
478 add a DNSSEC test case: GH #445 and GH #467.
479 BGP: add decoding of ADD-PATH capability
480 fixes to LLC header printing, and RFC948-style IP packets
482 Friday April 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
483 Summary for 4.7.4 tcpdump release
484 RPKI to Router Protocol: Fix Segmentation Faults and other problems
485 RPKI to Router Protocol: print strings with fn_printn()
486 wb: fix some bounds checks
488 Wednesday March 11, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
489 Summary for 4.7.3 tcpdump release
490 Capsicum fixes for FreeBSD 10
492 Tuesday March 10, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
493 Summary for 4.7.2 tcpdump release
494 DCCP: update Packet Types with RFC4340/IANA names
495 fixes for CVE-2015-0261: IPv6 mobility header check issue
496 fixes for CVE-2015-2153, 2154, 2155: kday packets
498 Friday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
499 Summary for 4.7.0 tcpdump release
500 changes to hex printing of CDP packets
502 Radius: update Packet Type Codes and Attribute Types with RFC/IANA names
503 Add a routine to print "text protocols", and add FTP/HTTP/SMTP/RTSP support.
504 improvements to telnet printer, even if not -v
505 omit length for bcp, print-tcp uses it
506 formatting fixes for a bunch of protocols
507 new bounds checks for a number of protocols
508 split netflow 1,6, and 6 dissector up.
509 added geneve dissector
510 CVE-2014-9140 PPP dissector fixed.
512 Tuesday Sep. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
513 Summary for 4.6.2 tcpdump release
514 fix out-of-source-tree builds: find libpcap that is out of source
515 better configure check for libsmi
517 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
518 Summary for 4.6.1 tcpdump release
519 added FreeBSD capsicum
520 add a short option '#', same as long option '--number'
522 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
523 Summary for 4.6.0 tcpdump release
524 all of tcpdump is now using the new "NDO" code base (Thanks Denis!)
525 nflog, mobile, forces, pptp, AODV, AHCP, IPv6, OSPFv4, RPL, DHCPv6 enhancements/fixes
527 many new test cases: 82 in 4.5.1 to 133 in 4.6.0
528 many improvements to travis continuous integration system: OSX, and Coverity options
529 cleaned up some unnecessary header files
531 a number of unaligned access faults fixed
532 -A flag does not consider CR to be printable anymore
533 fx.lebail took over coverity baby sitting
534 default snapshot size increased to 256K for accommodate USB captures
535 WARNING: this release contains a lot of very worthwhile code churn.
537 Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
538 Summary for 4.5.2 tcpdump release
542 Monday Nov. 11, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca
543 Summary for 4.5.1 tcpdump release
546 Thursday Nov. 7, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca and guy@alum.mit.edu.
547 Summary for 4.5.0 tcpdump release
548 some NFSv4 fixes for printing
549 fix printing of unknown TCP options, and tcp fast-open
550 fixes for syslog parser
551 some gcc-version-specific flag tuning
552 adopt MacOS deprecation workarounds for openssl
553 improvements to babel printing
554 add OpenFlow 1.0 (no SSL) and test cases
556 added STBC Rx support
557 improvements to DHCPv6 decoder
558 clarify which autoconf is needed
559 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
560 than the mcr repository
562 Fixed IPv6 check on Solaris and other OSes requiring extra
563 networking libraries.
564 Add support for VXLAN (draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03),
565 and add "vxlan" as an option for -T.
566 Add support for OTV (draft-hasmit-otv-04).
567 fixes for DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO datalink types
570 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu.
571 Summary for 4.4.0 tcpdump release
572 RPKI-RTR (RFC6810) is now official (TCP Port 323)
573 Fix detection of OpenSSL libcrypto.
574 Add DNSSL (RFC6106) support.
575 Add "radius" as an option for -T.
576 Update Action codes for handle_action function according to
578 Decode DHCPv6 AFTR-Name option (RFC6334).
580 Fix printing of infinite lifetime in ICMPv6.
581 Added support for SPB, SPBM Service Identifier, and Unicast
582 Address sub-TLV in ISIS.
583 Decode RIPv2 authentication up to RFC4822.
584 Fix RIP Request/full table decoding issues.
585 On Linux systems with cap-ng.h, drop root privileges
586 using Linux Capabilities.
587 Add support for reading multiple files.
588 Add MS NLB heartbeat printer.
589 Separate multiple nexthops in BGP.
591 Wednesday November 28, 2012 guy@alum.mit.edu.
592 Summary for 4.3.1 tcpdump release
593 Print "LLDP, length N" for LLDP packets even when not in verbose
594 mode, so something is printed even if only the timestamp is
597 Print NTP poll interval correctly (it's an exponent, so print
598 both its raw value and 2^value)
599 Document that "-e" is used to get MAC addresses
600 More clearly document that you need to escape or quote
601 backslashes in filter expressions on the command line
602 Fix some "the the" in the man page
603 Use the right maximum path length
604 Don't treat 192_1_2, when passed to -i, as an interface number
606 Friday April 3, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca.
607 Summary for 4.3.0 tcpdump release
608 fixes for forces: SPARSE data (per RFC 5810)
609 some more test cases added
610 updates to documentation on -l, -U and -w flags.
611 Fix printing of BGP optional headers.
612 Tried to include DLT_PFSYNC support, failed due to headers required.
614 Fix LLDP Network Policy bit definitions.
615 fixes for IGMPv3's Max Response Time: it is in units of 0.1 second.
616 SIGUSR1 can be used rather than SIGINFO for stats
617 permit -n flag to affect print-ip for protocol numbers
618 ND_OPT_ADVINTERVAL is in milliseconds, not seconds
619 Teach PPPoE parser about RFC 4638
622 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
623 Summary for 4.2.1 tcpdump release
624 Only build the Babel printer if IPv6 is enabled.
625 Support Babel on port 6696 as well as 6697.
626 Include ppi.h in release tarball.
627 Include all the test files in the release tarball, and don't
628 "include" test files that no longer exist.
629 Don't assume we have <rpc/rpc.h> - check for it.
630 Support "-T carp" as a way of dissecting IP protocol 112 as CARP
632 Support Hilscher NetAnalyzer link-layer header format.
633 Constify some pointers and fix compiler warnings.
634 Get rid of never-true test.
635 Fix an unintended fall-through in a case statement in the ARP
637 Fix several cases where sizeof(sizeof(XXX)) was used when just
638 sizeof(XXX) was intended.
639 Make stricter sanity checks in the ES-IS printer.
640 Get rid of some GCCisms that caused builds to fai with compilers
641 that don't support them.
642 Fix typo in man page.
643 Added length checks to Babel printer.
645 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
647 merged 802.15.4 decoder from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov
649 updates to forces for new port numbers
650 Use "-H", not "-h", for the 802.11s option. (-h always help)
651 Better ICMPv6 checksum handling.
652 add support for the RPKI/Router Protocol, per -ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-12
653 get rid of uuencoded pcap test files, git can do binary.
654 sFlow changes for 64-bit counters.
655 fixes for PPI packet header handling and printing.
656 Add DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) version 1.01.
657 Babel dissector, from Juliusz Chroboczek and Grégoire Henry.
658 improvements to radiotap for rate values > 127.
659 Many improvements to ForCES decode, including fix SCTP TML port
660 updated RPL type code to RPL-17 draft
661 Improve printout of DHCPv6 options.
662 added support and test case for QinQ (802.1q VLAN) packets
663 Handle DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS like DLT_IEEE802_15_4.
664 Build fixes for Sparc and other machines with alignment restrictions.
665 Merged changes from Debian package.
666 PGM: Add ACK decoding and add PGMCC DATA and FEEDBACK options.
667 Build fixes for OSX (Snow Leopard and others)
668 Add support for IEEE 802.15.4 packets
670 Tue. July 20, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
671 Summary for 4.1.2 tcpdump release
672 If -U is specified, flush the file after creating it, so it's
674 Fix TCP flags output description, and some typos, in the man
676 Add a -h flag, and only attempt to recognize 802.11s mesh
678 When printing the link-layer type list, send *all* output to
680 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
683 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
684 Summary for 4.1.1 tcpdump release
685 Fix build on systems with PF, such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
686 Don't blow up if a zero-length link-layer address is passed to
689 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
690 Summary for 4.1.0 tcpdump release
691 Fix printing of MAC addresses for VLAN frames with a length
693 Add some additional bounds checks and use the EXTRACT_ macros
695 Add a -b flag to print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT
696 notation rather than ASPLAIN notation
697 Add ICMPv6 RFC 5006 support
698 Decode the access flags in NFS access requests
699 Handle the new DLT_ for memory-mapped USB captures on Linux
700 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
701 Print name of device (when -L is used)
702 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
704 Add support for RPL DIO
705 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
706 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
707 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
708 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
709 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
710 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
711 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
713 Add printer for ForCES
714 Handle frames with an FCS
715 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
716 Fix TCP sequence number printing
717 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
718 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
719 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
720 Lots of code clean ups
722 Update testcases to make output changes
723 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
724 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
726 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
727 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
728 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
729 Add support for 802.11 AVS
730 Add support for SMB over TCP
731 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
732 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
733 Add support for ikev2 printing
734 Update support for decoding AFS
735 Update DHCPv6 printer
736 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
737 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
738 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
739 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
741 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
743 Rework OSPFv3 printer
744 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
745 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
746 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
747 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
748 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
749 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
750 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
751 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
752 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
753 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
756 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
758 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
760 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
761 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
762 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
763 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
764 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
765 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
766 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
767 if it got MSG_DENIED.
768 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
769 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependency.
771 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
772 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
773 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
774 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
775 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
777 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
778 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
779 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
780 Add support in pflog for additional values
781 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
782 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
783 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
784 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
785 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
786 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
787 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
788 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
789 https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
790 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
791 extensions from olsr.org
792 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
794 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
795 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
796 Add support for the cisco propriatry 'dynamic trunking protocol'
797 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
798 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
801 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
803 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
804 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
805 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
806 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
807 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
808 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
809 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
810 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
811 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
812 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
813 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
814 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
815 Cleanup the bootp printer
816 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
817 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
818 the options output a bit.
819 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
820 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
821 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
822 Fixes for 64bit compiling
823 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
824 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
825 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
826 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
827 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
830 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
831 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
832 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
834 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
836 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
837 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
838 object printer to latest spec.
839 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
841 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
842 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
843 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
844 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
845 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
846 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
849 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
851 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
852 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
853 including improved 64bit support
855 Support for sending packets
856 Many compliation fixes on most platforms
857 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
858 Improved Unicode support
860 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
862 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
863 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
864 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
866 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
868 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
870 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
876 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
879 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
886 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
888 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
891 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
893 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
894 https://web.archive.org/web/20160328035955/https://www.rapid7.com/resources/advisories/R7-0017.jsp
895 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
896 some MINGW32 changes.
897 updates for autoconf 2.5
898 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
899 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
900 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
901 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
902 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
903 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
904 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
905 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
906 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
907 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
908 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
910 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
912 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
913 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
915 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
916 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
917 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
918 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
919 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
920 PPPoE payload length headers.
921 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
922 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
923 BGP output split into multiple lines.
924 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
925 Fixes to PIM decoder.
926 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
927 unaligned access work.
928 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
929 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
930 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
931 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
932 New -A flag -print ascii only
933 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
934 more verbosity for tftp decoder
937 cross compilation patches
938 RFC 3561 AODV support.
939 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
940 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
941 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
942 fixes for DECnet support.
943 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
944 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
946 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
948 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid isakmp packets.
949 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
950 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid BGP packets.
951 Fixed buffer overflow with certain invalid NFS packets.
952 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
953 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
954 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
955 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
956 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
957 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
958 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
960 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
961 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
962 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
963 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
964 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
966 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
968 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
969 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
970 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
971 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
972 improvements to SNAP demux.
973 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
974 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
975 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
976 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
977 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
978 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
979 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
980 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
981 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
982 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
983 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
984 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
985 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
986 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
987 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
988 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
989 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
990 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
991 Better Linux libc5 compat.
992 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
993 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
994 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
995 New time stamp formats documented.
996 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
997 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
998 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
999 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
1000 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
1001 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
1002 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
1003 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
1004 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
1005 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
1006 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
1007 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
1008 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
1009 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
1010 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
1011 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
1012 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
1013 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
1014 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
1015 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
1016 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
1017 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
1018 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
1019 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
1021 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
1023 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
1024 Cleaned up documentation.
1025 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
1026 IPsec changes/cleanups.
1027 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
1029 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
1030 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
1032 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
1033 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
1034 depending upon system dependent mappings of DLT_* types.
1036 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
1038 Updated autoconf stock files.
1040 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
1042 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
1043 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
1045 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
1047 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
1050 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
1051 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
1052 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
1054 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
1055 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
1056 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
1059 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
1061 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
1062 - switch to config.h for autoconf
1063 - unify RCSID strings
1064 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
1065 - Really fix the RIP printer
1066 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
1067 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
1068 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
1069 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
1070 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
1073 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
1074 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
1075 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
1076 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
1077 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
1078 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
1079 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
1081 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
1082 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
1083 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
1085 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
1087 - permit building in different directories.
1089 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
1091 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
1094 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
1097 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
1098 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
1099 change date format to the right one.
1101 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
1102 - Created tcpdump.org repository
1104 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
1106 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
1108 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
1109 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1111 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
1112 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
1114 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
1116 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
1118 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
1121 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
1123 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
1124 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
1127 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
1128 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
1130 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
1133 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
1134 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
1136 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
1139 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
1140 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
1142 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
1143 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
1144 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1146 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
1147 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
1149 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
1152 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
1154 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
1155 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
1157 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
1158 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
1160 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
1163 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
1164 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
1166 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
1168 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
1170 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
1172 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
1173 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
1175 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
1177 - Added Linux support.
1179 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
1182 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
1184 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
1186 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
1187 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
1189 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
1191 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
1194 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
1195 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
1197 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
1198 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
1199 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1201 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
1203 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
1204 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
1206 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
1208 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
1209 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
1210 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
1211 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
1212 first block N times).
1214 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
1215 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
1217 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
1219 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1222 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
1223 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1225 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
1228 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
1229 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
1231 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1233 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
1234 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
1236 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
1237 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1239 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
1240 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
1242 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
1243 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1245 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
1247 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
1248 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
1250 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
1252 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
1253 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1255 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
1256 (steve@research.oknet.com)
1258 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
1259 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1261 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
1263 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
1264 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
1266 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
1267 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1269 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1270 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
1272 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
1274 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
1276 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
1278 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
1279 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
1281 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
1284 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
1286 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
1287 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
1289 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
1291 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1292 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
1295 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1297 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
1298 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
1299 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
1302 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
1304 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
1307 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
1310 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
1312 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
1313 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
1315 - Port to GNU autoconf.
1317 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
1318 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
1320 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
1321 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
1323 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
1325 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
1326 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
1328 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
1330 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
1332 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
1333 (cslater@imatek.com).
1335 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
1337 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
1338 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
1340 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
1341 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
1343 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
1345 - Add support for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1347 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
1348 wrong on little endian machines).
1350 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
1353 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
1354 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
1356 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
1357 selective acknowledgment case.
1359 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
1362 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
1363 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
1366 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
1367 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1369 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
1370 Honig (jhc@bsdi.com)
1373 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
1375 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
1378 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
1379 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
1380 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
1382 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
1383 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1384 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
1386 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
1388 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1390 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
1392 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
1393 "released" one in late 1995.
1395 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
1397 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
1399 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
1400 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
1401 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1403 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
1404 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1406 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
1407 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
1409 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
1410 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
1412 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
1414 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
1416 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
1418 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
1420 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
1422 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
1423 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1425 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
1426 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
1427 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
1428 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
1429 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
1430 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
1431 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
1433 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
1436 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
1437 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
1438 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
1440 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
1443 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
1444 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
1446 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
1447 packaged separately).
1449 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
1451 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
1454 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
1455 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
1457 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
1460 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
1461 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
1463 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
1464 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
1465 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
1466 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
1467 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
1468 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
1469 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
1470 with "not ip proto 4".)
1472 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
1473 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1475 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1477 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
1478 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
1479 Add && and || operators
1481 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
1483 - Fix bug with -c flag.
1485 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
1487 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
1490 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
1491 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
1493 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
1495 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
1496 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
1497 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
1499 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
1500 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
1501 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
1503 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
1504 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
1506 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
1508 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
1510 - Internal release (never publicly exported).
1512 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
1514 - Various byte ordering fixes.
1516 - Add truncation checks.
1518 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
1520 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
1522 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
1524 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
1527 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
1528 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
1530 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
1532 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
1534 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
1536 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
1537 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
1539 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
1541 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
1543 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
1545 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
1547 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
1548 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
1550 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
1551 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
1552 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
1553 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
1555 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
1556 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
1557 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
1558 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
1560 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
1561 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
1562 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
1564 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
1567 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
1569 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
1570 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. Tcpdump has been tested under
1571 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
1572 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
1574 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
1576 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
1578 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
1580 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
1581 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
1583 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
1584 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
1586 - IP options are now printed.
1588 - RIP packets are now printed.
1590 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
1591 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
1592 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
1593 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
1595 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
1596 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
1599 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
1600 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
1601 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
1602 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
1605 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
1606 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
1607 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
1608 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
1609 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
1610 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
1611 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
1612 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
1614 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
1616 - Initial public release.
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