1 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
2 Summary for 4.99.6 tcpdump release (so far!)
3 Refine protocol decoding for:
4 IPv6: Add a missing comma and remove a colon in the output.
5 TCP: Note if the Urgent Pointer is non-zero while URG flag not set,
6 if the verbose level is > 1 (option -vv and more).
7 TCP: Note if the Acknowledgment Number is non-zero while ACK flag not set,
8 if the verbose level is > 1 (option -vv and more).
9 TCP: Fix Reset segment processing.
10 IP, IPv6: Fix setting the snapshot length for the payload.
11 PTP: Remove spaces before colons in output.
12 PTP: Fix management packet fields.
14 Warn that options -A, -x[x] and -X[X] are mutually exclusive.
16 Fix '-tt' option printing when time > 2106-02-07T06:28:15Z.
18 Fixed to find wpcap.dll if WinPcap isn't installed and Npcap was
19 installed without the WinPcap API compatibility option. (GitHub
22 Makefile.in: Use a local libpcap in the releasecheck target.
23 CMake: Fix build with CMake 3.31.
25 Friday, August 30, 2024 / The Tcpdump Group
26 Summary for 4.99.5 tcpdump release
27 Refine protocol decoding for:
28 Arista: Use the test .pcap file from pull request #955 (HwInfo).
29 BGP: Fix an undefined behavior when it tries to parse a too-short packet.
30 CARP: Print the protocol name before any GET_().
31 CDP: only hex-dump unknown TLVs in verbose mode.
32 DHCP: parse the SZTP redirect tag.
33 DHCPv6: client-id/server-id DUID type 2 correction; parse the user class,
34 boot file URL, and SZTP redirect options; add DUID-UUID printing
36 DNS: Detect and correctly handle too-short URI RRs.
37 EAP: Assign ndo_protocol in the eap_print() function.
38 ESP: Don't use EVP_add_cipher_alias() (fixes building on OpenBSD 7.5).
39 Frame Relay (Multilink): Fix the Timestamp Information Element printing.
40 ICMPv6: Fix printing the Home Agent Address Discovery Reply Message.
41 IEEE 802.11: no need for an element ID in the structures for IEs, make
42 the length in the IE structures a u_int, include the "TA" field while
43 printing Block Ack Control frame.
44 IP: Enable TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) support; fix printing invalid
45 cases as invalid, not truncated; use ND_ICHECKMSG_ZU() to test the
47 IPv6: Fix printing invalid cases as invalid, not truncated; use
48 ND_ICHECKMSG_U() to print an invalid version.
49 IPv6: Fix invalid 32-bit versus 64-bit printouts of fragment headers.
50 ISAKMP: Fix printing Delete payload SPI when size is zero.
51 Kerberos: Print the protocol name, remove a redundant bounds check.
52 lwres: Fix an undefined behavior in pointer arithmetic.
53 OpenFlow 1.0: Fix indentation of PORT_MOD, improve handling of
54 some lengths, and fix handling of snapend.
55 TCP: Test ports < 1024 in port order to select the printer.
56 UDP: Move source port equal BCM_LI_PORT to bottom of long if else chain.
57 UDP: Test ports < 1024 in port order to select the printer.
58 LDP: Add missing fields of the Common Session Parameters TLV and fix the
59 offset for the A&D bits.
60 NFLOG: Use correct AF code points on all OSes.
61 NFS: Avoid printing non-ASCII characters.
62 OSPF: Pad TLVs in LS_OPAQUE_TYPE_RI to multiples of 4 bytes.
63 OSPF: Update LS-Ack printing not to run off the end of the packet.
64 OSPF6: Fix an undefined behavior.
65 pflog: use nd_ types in struct pfloghdr.
66 PPP: Check if there is some data to hexdump.
67 PPP: Remove an extra colon before LCP Callback Operation.
68 Use the buffer stack for de-escaping PPP; fixes CVE-2024-2397;
69 Note: This problem does not affect any tcpdump release.
70 PTP: Fix spelling of type SIGNALING, Parse major and minor version
71 correctly, Print majorSdoId field instead of just the first bit.
72 RIP: Make a couple trivial protocol updates.
73 RPKI-Router: Refine length and bounds checks.
74 RX: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
75 smbutil.c: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
76 SNMP: Fix two undefined behaviors.
77 Text protocols: Fix printing truncation if it is not the case.
78 ZEP: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
79 ZMTP: Replace custom code with bittok2str().
81 Print the supported time stamp types (-J) to stdout instead of stderr.
82 Print the list of data link types (-L) to stdout instead of stderr.
83 Use symmetrical quotation characters in error messages.
84 Update --version option to print 32/64-bit build and time_t size.
85 Improve error messages for invalid interface indexes specified
87 Support "3des" as an alias for "des_ede3_cbc" even if the crypto
88 library doesn't support adding aliases.
90 tcpdump: Fix a memory leak.
91 child_cleanup: reap as many child processes as possible.
92 Ignore failures when setting the default "any" device DLL to LINUX_SLL2.
93 Fix for backends which doesn't support capsicum.
94 Update ND_BYTES_BETWEEN() macro for better accuracy.
95 Update ND_BYTES_AVAILABLE_AFTER() macro for better accuracy.
96 Introduce new ND_ICHECK*() macros to deduplicate more code.
97 Skip privilege dropping when using -Z root on --with-user builds.
98 Add a nd_printjn() function.
99 Make nd_trunc_longjmp() not static inline.
100 Include <time.h> from netdissect.h.
101 Remove init_crc10_table() and the entourage.
102 Initialize tzcode early.
103 Capsicum support: Fix a 'not defined' macro error.
104 Update the "Error converting time" tests for packet times.
105 Fix warnings when building for 32-bit and defining _TIME_BITS=64.
106 Free interface list just before exiting where it wasn't being
108 Building and testing:
109 Add a configure option to help debugging (--enable-instrument-functions).
110 At build time require a proof of suitable snprintf(3) implementation in
111 libc (and document Solaris 9 as unsupported because of that).
112 Makefile.in: Add two "touch .devel" commands in the releasecheck target.
113 Autoconf: Get --with-user and --with-chroot right.
114 Autoconf: Fix --static-pcap-only test on Solaris 10.
115 Autoconf: Add some warning flags for clang 13 or newer.
116 Autoconf: Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2024-01-01.
117 Autoconf: Add autogen.sh, remove configure and config.h.in and put
118 these generated files in the release tarball.
119 Autoconf: Update the install-sh script to the 2020-11-14.01 version.
120 configure: Apply autoupdate 2.69.
121 CMake: improve the comment before project(tcpdump C).
122 Do not require vsnprintf().
123 tests: Use the -tttt option, by default, for the tests.
124 Autoconf, CMake: Get the size of a void * and a time_t.
125 Fix propagation of cc_werr_cflags() output.
126 Makefile.in: Fix the depend target.
127 mkdep: Exit with a non-zero status if a command fails.
128 Autoconf: use V_INCLS to update the list of include search paths.
129 Autoconf: don't put anything before -I and -L flags for local libpcap.
130 Autoconf, CMake: work around an Xcode 15+ issue.
131 Autoconf, CMake: use pkg-config and Homebrew when looking for
133 Fix Sun C invocation from CMake.
134 mkdep: Use TMPDIR if it is set and not null.
135 Add initial support for building with TinyCC.
136 Makefile.in: Use the variable MAKE instead of the make command.
137 Makefile.in: Add instrumentation configuration in releasecheck target.
138 Make various improvements to the TESTrun script.
139 Untangle detection of pcap_findalldevs().
140 Autoconf: don't use egrep, use $EGREP.
141 Autoconf: check for gethostbyaddr(), not gethostbyname().
142 Autoconf, CMake: search for gethostbyaddr() in libnetwork.
143 Make illumos build warning-free.
145 Fixed errors in doc/README.Win32.md and renamed it to README.windows.md.
146 Make various improvements to the man page.
147 Add initial README file for Haiku.
148 Make various improvements to CONTRIBUTING.md.
150 Friday, April 7, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
151 Summary for 4.99.4 tcpdump release
153 Fix spaces before tabs in indentation.
155 LSP ping: Fix "Unused value" warnings from Coverity.
156 CVE-2023-1801: Fix an out-of-bounds write in the SMB printer.
157 DNS: sync resource types with IANA.
158 ICMPv6: Update the output to show a RPL DAO field name.
159 Geneve: Fix the Geneve UDP port test.
160 Building and testing:
161 Require at least autoconf 2.69.
162 Don't check for strftime(), as it's in C90 and beyond.
163 Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2023-01-01,2023-01-21.
165 man: Document TCP flag names better.
167 Thursday, January 12, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
168 Summary for 4.99.3 tcpdump release
170 PTP: Use the proper values for the control field and print un-allocated
171 values for the message field as "Reserved" instead of "none".
173 smbutil.c: Replace obsolete function call (asctime)
174 Building and testing:
175 cmake: Update the minimum required version to 2.8.12 (except Windows).
176 CI: Introduce and use TCPDUMP_CMAKE_TAINTED.
177 Makefile.in: Add the releasecheck target.
178 Makefile.in: Add "make -s install" in the releasecheck target.
179 Cirrus CI: Run the "make releasecheck" command in the Linux task.
180 Makefile.in: Add the whitespacecheck target.
181 Cirrus CI: Run the "make whitespacecheck" command in the Linux task.
182 Address all shellcheck warnings in update-test.sh.
183 Makefile.in: Get rid of a remain of gnuc.h.
185 Reformat the installation notes (INSTALL.txt) in Markdown.
186 Convert CONTRIBUTING to Markdown.
187 CONTRIBUTING.md: Document the use of "protocol: " in a commit summary.
188 Add a README file for NetBSD.
189 Fix CMake build to set man page section numbers in tcpdump.1
191 Saturday, December 31, 2022 / The Tcpdump Group
192 Summary for 4.99.2 tcpdump release
194 BGP: Update cease notification decoding to RFC 9003.
195 BGP: decode BGP link-bandwidth extended community properly.
196 BGP: Fix parsing the AIGP attribute
197 BGP: make sure the path attributes don't go past the end of the packet.
198 BGP: Shutdown message can be up to 255 bytes length according to rfc9003
199 DSA: correctly determine VID.
200 EAP: fix some length checks and output issues.
201 802.11: Fix the misleading comment regarding "From DS", "To DS" Frame
203 802.11: Fetch the CF and TIM IEs a field at a time.
204 802.15.4, BGP, LISP: fix some length checks, compiler warnings,
205 and undefined behavior warnings.
206 PFLOG: handle LINKTYPE_PFLOG/DLT_PFLOG files from all OSes on all
208 RRCP: support more Realtek protocols than just RRCP.
209 MPLS: show the EXP field as TC, as per RFC 5462.
210 ICMP: redo MPLS Extension code as general ICMP Extension code.
211 VQP: Do not print unknown error codes twice.
212 Juniper: Add some bounds checks.
213 Juniper: Don't treat known DLT_ types as "Unknown".
214 lwres: Fix a length check, update a variable type.
215 EAP: Fix some undefined behaviors at runtime.
216 Ethernet: Rework the length checks, add a length check.
217 IPX: Add two length checks.
218 Zephyr: Avoid printing non-ASCII characters.
219 VRRP: Print the protocol name before any GET_().
220 DCCP: Get rid of trailing commas in lists.
221 Juniper: Report invalid packets as invalid, not truncated.
222 IPv6: Remove an obsolete code in an always-false #if wrapper.
223 ISAKMP: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
224 RADIUS: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
225 TCP: Fix an invalid check.
226 RESP: Fix an invalid check.
227 RESP: Remove an unnecessary test.
228 Arista: Refine the output format and print HwInfo.
229 sFlow: add support for IPv6 agent, add a length check.
230 VRRP: add support for IPv6.
231 OSPF: Update to match the Router Properties registry.
232 OSPF: Remove two unnecessary dereferences.
233 OSPF: Add support bit Nt RFC3101.
234 OSPFv3: Remove two unnecessary dereferences.
235 ICMPv6: Fix output for Router Renumbering messages.
236 ICMPv6: Fix the Node Information flags.
237 ICMPv6: Remove an unused macro and extra blank lines.
238 ICMPv6: Add a length check in the rpl_dio_print() function.
239 ICMPv6: Use GET_IP6ADDR_STRING() in the rpl_dio_print() function.
240 IPv6: Add some checks for the Hop-by-Hop Options header
241 IPv6: Add a check for the Jumbo Payload Hop-by-Hop option.
242 NFS: Fix the format for printing an unsigned int
243 PTP: fix printing of the correction fields
244 PTP: Use ND_LCHECK_U for checking invalid length.
245 WHOIS: Add its own printer source file and printer function
246 MPTCP: print length before subtype inside MPTCP options
247 ESP: Add a workaround to a "use-of-uninitialized-value".
248 PPP: Add tests to avoid incorrectly re-entering ppp_hdlc().
249 PPP: Don't process further if protocol is unknown (-e option).
250 PPP: Change the pointer to packet data.
251 ZEP: Add three length checks.
252 Add some const qualifiers.
253 Building and testing:
254 Update config.guess and config.sub.
255 Use AS_HELP_STRING macro instead of AC_HELP_STRING.
256 Handle some Autoconf/make errors better.
257 Fix an error when cross-compiling.
258 Use "git archive" for the "make releasetar" process.
259 Remove the release candidate rcX targets.
260 Mend "make check" on Solaris 9 with Autoconf.
261 Address assorted compiler warnings.
262 Fix auto-enabling of Capsicum on FreeBSD with Autoconf.
263 Treat "msys" as Windows for test exit statuses.
264 Clean up some help messages in configure.
265 Use unified diff by default.
266 Remove awk code from mkdep.
267 Fix configure test errors with Clang 15
268 CMake: Prevent stripping of the RPATH on installation.
269 AppVeyor CI: update Npcap site, update to 1.12 SDK.
270 Cirrus CI: Use the same configuration as for the main branch.
271 CI: Add back running tcpdump -J/-L and capture, now with Cirrus VMs.
272 Remove four test files (They are now in the libpcap tests directory).
273 On Solaris, for 64-bit builds, use the 64-bit pcap-config.
274 Tell CMake not to check for a C++ compiler.
275 CMake: Add a way to request -Werror and equivalents.
276 configure: Special-case macOS /usr/bin/pcap-config as we do in CMake.
277 configure: Use pcap-config --static-pcap-only if available.
278 configure: Use ac_c_werror_flag to force unknown compiler flags to fail.
279 configure: Use AC_COMPILE_IFELSE() and AC_LANG_SOURCE() for testing
281 Run the test that fails on OpenBSD only if we're not on OpenBSD.
283 Fix some snapend-changing routines to protect against pointer
285 Use __func__ from C99 in some function calls.
286 Memory allocator: Update nd_add_alloc_list() to a static function.
287 addrtoname.c: Fix two invalid tests.
288 Use more S_SUCCESS and S_ERR_HOST_PROGRAM in main().
289 Add some comments about "don't use GET_IP6ADDR_STRING()".
290 Assign ndo->ndo_packetp in pretty_print_packet().
291 Add ND_LCHECKMSG_U, ND_LCHECK_U, ND_LCHECKMSG_ZU and ND_LCHECK_ZU macros.
292 Update tok2strbuf() to a static function.
293 netdissect.h: Keep the link-layer dissectors names sorted.
294 setsignal(): Set SA_RESTART on non-lethal signals (REQ_INFO, FLUSH_PCAP)
295 to avoid corrupting binary pcap output.
296 Use __builtin_unreachable().
297 Fail if nd_push_buffer() or nd_push_snaplen() fails.
298 Improve code style and fix many typos.
300 Some man page cleanups.
301 Update the print interface for the packet count to stdout.
302 Note that we require compilers to support at least some of C99.
303 Update AIX and Solaris-related specifics.
304 INSTALL.txt: Add doc/README.*, delete the deleted win32 directory.
305 Update README.md and README.Win32.md.
306 Update some comments with new RFC numbers.
308 Wednesday, June 9, 2021 by gharris
309 Summary for 4.99.1 tcpdump release
311 Squelch some compiler warnings
312 ICMP: Update the snapend for some nested IP packets.
313 MACsec: Update the snapend thus the ICV field is not payload
315 EIGRP: Fix packet header fields
316 SMB: Disable printer by default in CMake builds
317 OLSR: Print the protocol name even if the packet is invalid
318 MSDP: Print ": " before the protocol name
319 ESP: Remove padding, padding length and next header from the buffer
320 DHCPv6: Update the snapend for nested DHCPv6 packets
321 OpenFlow 1.0: Get snapend right for nested frames.
322 TCP: Update the snapend before decoding a MPTCP option
323 Ethernet, IEEE 802.15.4, IP, L2TP, TCP, ZEP: Add bounds checks
324 ForCES: Refine SPARSEDATA-TLV length check.
325 ASCII/hex: Use nd_trunc_longjmp() in truncation cases
326 GeoNet: Add a ND_TCHECK_LEN() call
327 Replace ND_TCHECK_/memcpy() pairs with GET_CPY_BYTES().
328 BGP: Fix overwrites of global 'astostr' temporary buffer
329 ARP: fix overwrites of static buffer in q922_string().
330 Frame Relay: have q922_string() handle errors better.
331 Building and testing:
332 Rebuild configure script when building release
333 Fix "make clean" for out-of-tree autotools builds
334 CMake: add stuff from CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
336 man: Update a reference as www.cifs.org is gone.
337 man: Update DNS sections
339 Fix a compile error with Sun C
341 Wednesday, December 30, 2020, by mcr@sandelman.ca, denis and fxl.
342 Summary for 4.99.0 tcpdump release
343 CVE-2018-16301: For the -F option handle large input files safely.
344 Improve the contents, wording and formatting of the man page.
345 Print unsupported link-layer protocol packets in hex.
346 Add support for new network protocols and DLTs: Arista, Autosar SOME/IP,
347 Broadcom LI and Ethernet switches tag, IEEE 802.15.9, IP-over-InfiniBand
348 (IPoIB), Linux SLL2, Linux vsockmon, MACsec, Marvell Distributed Switch
349 Architecture, OpenFlow 1.3, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), SSH, WHOIS,
350 ZigBee Encapsulation Protocol (ZEP).
351 Make protocol-specific updates for: AH, DHCP, DNS, ESP, FRF.16, HNCP,
352 ICMP6, IEEE 802.15.4, IPv6, IS-IS, Linux SLL, LLDP, LSP ping, MPTCP, NFS,
353 NSH, NTP, OSPF, OSPF6, PGM, PIM, PPTP, RADIUS, RSVP, Rx, SMB, UDLD,
356 Make SLL2 the default for Linux "any" pseudo-device.
357 Add --micro and --nano shorthands.
358 Add --count to print a counter only instead of decoding.
359 Add --print, to cause packet printing even with -w.
360 Add support for remote capture if libpcap supports it.
361 Display the "wireless" flag and connection status.
362 Flush the output packet buffer on a SIGUSR2.
363 Add the snapshot length to the "reading from file ..." message.
364 Fix local time printing (DST offset in timestamps).
365 Allow -C arguments > 2^31-1 GB if they can fit into a long.
366 Handle very large -f files by rejecting them.
367 Report periodic stats only when safe to do so.
368 Print the number of packets captured only as often as necessary.
369 With no -s, or with -s 0, don't specify the snapshot length with newer
371 Improve version and usage message printing.
372 Building and testing:
373 Install into bindir, not sbindir.
374 autoconf: replace --with-system-libpcap with --disable-local-libpcap.
375 Require the compiler to support C99.
376 Better detect and use various C compilers and their features.
377 Add CMake as the second build system.
378 Make out-of-tree builds more reliable.
379 Use pkg-config to detect libpcap if available.
380 Improve Windows support.
381 Add more tests and improve the scripts that run them.
382 Test both with "normal" and "x87" floating-point.
383 Eliminate dependency on libdnet.
385 Print a proper error message about monitor mode VAP.
386 Use libcasper if available.
387 Fix failure to capture on RDMA device.
388 Include the correct capsicum header.
390 Start the transition to longjmp() for packet truncation handling.
391 Introduce new helper functions, including GET_*(), nd_print_protocol(),
392 nd_print_invalid(), nd_print_trunc(), nd_trunc_longjmp() and others.
393 Put integer signedness right in many cases.
394 Introduce nd_uint*, nd_mac_addr, nd_ipv4 and nd_ipv6 types to fix
395 alignment issues, especially on SPARC.
396 Fix many C compiler, Coverity, UBSan and cppcheck warnings.
397 Fix issues detected with AddressSanitizer.
398 Remove many workarounds for older compilers and OSes.
399 Add a sanity check on packet header length.
400 Add and remove plenty of bounds checks.
401 Clean up pcap_findalldevs() call to find the first interface.
402 Use a short timeout, rather than immediate mode, for text output.
403 Handle DLT_ENC files *not* written on the same OS and byte-order host.
404 Add, and use, macros to do locale-independent case mapping.
405 Use a table instead of getprotobynumber().
406 Get rid of ND_UNALIGNED and ND_TCHECK().
407 Make roundup2() generally available.
408 Resync SMI list against Wireshark.
411 Friday, September 20, 2019, by mcr@sandelman.ca
412 A huge thank you to Denis, Francois-Xavier and Guy who did much of the heavy lifting.
413 Summary for 4.9.3 tcpdump release
414 Fix buffer overflow/overread vulnerabilities:
416 CVE-2018-14468 (FrameRelay)
417 CVE-2018-14469 (IKEv1)
418 CVE-2018-14470 (BABEL)
419 CVE-2018-14466 (AFS/RX)
421 CVE-2018-14462 (ICMP)
422 CVE-2018-14465 (RSVP)
425 CVE-2018-14463 (VRRP)
427 CVE-2018-10103 (SMB - partially fixed, but SMB printing disabled)
428 CVE-2018-10105 (SMB - too unreliably reproduced, SMB printing disabled)
429 CVE-2018-14880 (OSPF6)
432 CVE-2018-16227 (802.11)
433 CVE-2018-16229 (DCCP)
437 CVE-2018-16228 (HNCP)
439 CVE-2019-15167 (VRRP)
440 Fix for cmdline argument/local issues:
441 CVE-2018-14879 (tcpdump -V)
443 Sunday September 3, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
444 Summary for 4.9.2 tcpdump release
445 Do not use getprotobynumber() for protocol name resolution. Do not do
446 any protocol name resolution if -n is specified.
447 Improve errors detection in the test scripts.
448 Fix a segfault with OpenSSL 1.1 and improve OpenSSL usage.
449 Clean up IS-IS printing.
450 Fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities:
451 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
452 CVE-2017-13011 (bittok2str_internal)
453 Fix infinite loop vulnerabilities:
454 CVE-2017-12989 (RESP)
455 CVE-2017-12990 (ISAKMP)
457 CVE-2017-12997 (LLDP)
458 Fix buffer over-read vulnerabilities:
459 CVE-2017-11541 (safeputs)
460 CVE-2017-11542 (PIMv1)
461 CVE-2017-12893 (SMB/CIFS)
462 CVE-2017-12894 (lookup_bytestring)
463 CVE-2017-12895 (ICMP)
464 CVE-2017-12896 (ISAKMP)
465 CVE-2017-12897 (ISO CLNS)
467 CVE-2017-12899 (DECnet)
468 CVE-2017-12900 (tok2strbuf)
469 CVE-2017-12901 (EIGRP)
470 CVE-2017-12902 (Zephyr)
471 CVE-2017-12985 (IPv6)
472 CVE-2017-12986 (IPv6 routing headers)
473 CVE-2017-12987 (IEEE 802.11)
474 CVE-2017-12988 (telnet)
476 CVE-2017-12992 (RIPng)
477 CVE-2017-12993 (Juniper)
479 CVE-2017-12996 (PIMv2)
480 CVE-2017-12998 (ISO IS-IS)
481 CVE-2017-12999 (ISO IS-IS)
482 CVE-2017-13000 (IEEE 802.15.4)
484 CVE-2017-13002 (AODV)
486 CVE-2017-13004 (Juniper)
488 CVE-2017-13006 (L2TP)
489 CVE-2017-13007 (Apple PKTAP)
490 CVE-2017-13008 (IEEE 802.11)
491 CVE-2017-13009 (IPv6 mobility)
492 CVE-2017-13010 (BEEP)
493 CVE-2017-13012 (ICMP)
495 CVE-2017-13014 (White Board)
497 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
498 CVE-2017-13016 (ISO ES-IS)
499 CVE-2017-13017 (DHCPv6)
503 CVE-2017-13021 (ICMPv6)
505 CVE-2017-13023 (IPv6 mobility)
506 CVE-2017-13024 (IPv6 mobility)
507 CVE-2017-13025 (IPv6 mobility)
508 CVE-2017-13026 (ISO IS-IS)
509 CVE-2017-13027 (LLDP)
510 CVE-2017-13028 (BOOTP)
513 CVE-2017-13031 (IPv6 fragmentation header)
514 CVE-2017-13032 (RADIUS)
517 CVE-2017-13035 (ISO IS-IS)
518 CVE-2017-13036 (OSPFv3)
521 CVE-2017-13039 (ISAKMP)
522 CVE-2017-13040 (MPTCP)
523 CVE-2017-13041 (ICMPv6)
524 CVE-2017-13042 (HNCP)
526 CVE-2017-13044 (HNCP)
529 CVE-2017-13047 (ISO ES-IS)
530 CVE-2017-13048 (RSVP)
532 CVE-2017-13050 (RPKI-Router)
533 CVE-2017-13051 (RSVP)
536 CVE-2017-13054 (LLDP)
537 CVE-2017-13055 (ISO IS-IS)
538 CVE-2017-13687 (Cisco HDLC)
539 CVE-2017-13688 (OLSR)
540 CVE-2017-13689 (IKEv1)
541 CVE-2017-13690 (IKEv2)
542 CVE-2017-13725 (IPv6 routing headers)
544 Sunday July 23, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
545 Summary for 4.9.1 tcpdump release
546 CVE-2017-11108/Fix bounds checking for STP.
547 Make assorted documentation updates and fix a few typos in tcpdump output.
548 Fixup -C for file size >2GB (GH #488).
549 Show AddressSanitizer presence in version output.
550 Fix a bug in test scripts (exposed in GH #613).
551 On FreeBSD adjust Capsicum capabilities for netmap.
552 On Linux fix a use-after-free when the requested interface does not exist.
554 Wednesday January 18, 2017 devel.fx.lebail@orange.fr
555 Summary for 4.9.0 tcpdump release
557 Fix some heap overflows found with American Fuzzy Lop by Hanno Boeck and others
558 (More information in the log with CVE-2016-* and CVE-2017-*)
559 Change the way protocols print link-layer addresses (Fix heap overflows
560 in CALM-FAST and GeoNetworking printers)
561 Pass correct caplen value to ether_print() and some other functions
562 Fix lookup_nsap() to match what isonsap_string() expects
563 Clean up relative time stamp printing (Fix an array overflow)
564 Fix some alignment issues with GCC on Solaris 10 SPARC
565 Add some ND_TTEST_/ND_TCHECK_ macros to simplify writing bounds checks
566 Add a fn_printztn() which returns the number of bytes processed
567 Add nd_init() and nd_cleanup() functions. Improve libsmi support
568 Add CONTRIBUTING file
569 Add a summary comment in all printers
570 Compile with more warning options in devel mode if supported (-Wcast-qual, ...)
571 Fix some leaks found by Valgrind/Memcheck
572 Fix a bunch of de-constifications
573 Squelch some Coverity warnings and some compiler warnings
574 Update Coverity and Travis-CI setup
575 Update Visual Studio files
578 Fix capsicum support to work with zerocopy buffers in bpf
579 Try opening interfaces by name first, then by name-as-index
580 Work around pcap_create() failures fetching time stamp type lists
581 Fix a segmentation fault with 'tcpdump -J'
582 Improve addrtostr6() bounds checking
583 Add exit_tcpdump() function
584 Don't drop CAP_SYS_CHROOT before chrooting
585 Fixes issue where statistics not reported when -G and -W options used
588 802.11: Beginnings of 11ac radiotap support
589 802.11: Check the Protected bit for management frames
590 802.11: Do bounds checking on last_presentp before dereferencing it (Fix a heap overflow)
591 802.11: Fix the radiotap printer to handle the special bits correctly
592 802.11: If we have the MCS field, it's 11n
593 802.11: Only print unknown frame type or subtype messages once
594 802.11: Radiotap dBm values get printed as dB; Update a test output accordingly
595 802.11: Source and destination addresses were backwards
596 AH: Add a bounds check
597 AH: Report to our caller that dissection failed if a bounds check fails
598 AP1394: Print src > dst, not dst > src
599 ARP: Don't assume the target hardware address is <= 6 octets long (Fix a heap overflow)
600 ATALK: Add bounds and length checks (Fix heap overflows)
601 ATM: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
602 ATM: Fix an incorrect bounds check
603 BFD: Update specification from draft to RFC 5880
604 BFD: Update to print optional authentication field
605 BGP: Add support for the AIGP attribute (RFC7311)
606 BGP: Print LARGE_COMMUNITY Path Attribute
607 BGP: Update BGP numbers from IANA; Print minor values for FSM notification
608 BOOTP: Add a bounds check
609 Babel: Add decoder for source-specific extension
610 CDP: Filter out non-printable characters
611 CFM: Fixes to match the IEEE standard, additional bounds and length checks
612 CSLIP: Add more bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
613 ClassicalIPoATM: Add a bounds check on LLC+SNAP header (Fix a heap overflow)
614 DHCP: Fix MUDURL and TZ options
615 DHCPv6: Process MUDURL and TZ options
616 DHCPv6: Update Status Codes with RFCs/IANA names
617 DNS: Represent the "DNSSEC OK" bit as "DO" instead of "OK". Add a test case
618 DTP: Improve packet integrity checks
619 EGP: Fix bounds checks
620 ESP: Don't use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() in OpenSSL 1.1.0 or later
621 Ethernet: Add some bounds checking before calling isoclns_print (Fix a heap overflow)
622 Ethernet: Print the Length/Type field as length when needed
623 FDDI: Fix -e output for FDDI
624 FR: Add some packet-length checks and improve Q.933 printing (Fix heap overflows)
625 GRE: Add some bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
626 Geneve: Fix error message with invalid option length; Update list option classes
627 HNCP: Fix incorrect time interval format. Fix handling of IPv4 prefixes
628 ICMP6: Fetch a 32-bit big-endian quantity with EXTRACT_32BITS()
629 IGMP: Add a length check
630 IP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
631 IP: Check before fetching the protocol version (Fix a heap overflow)
632 IP: Don't try to dissect if IP version != 4 (Fix a heap overflow)
633 IP: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
634 IPComp: Check whether we have the CPI before we fetch it (Fix a heap overflow)
635 IPoFC: Fix -e output (IP-over-Fibre Channel)
636 IPv6: Don't overwrite the destination IPv6 address for routing headers
637 IPv6: Fix header printing
638 IPv6: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
639 ISAKMP: Clean up parsing of IKEv2 Security Associations
640 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Add support for Purge Originator Identifier (RFC6232) and test cases
641 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Don't overwrite packet data when checking the signature
642 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Filter out non-printable characters
643 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Fix segmentation faults
644 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
645 ISOCLNS: Add some bounds checks
646 Juniper: Make sure a Juniper header TLV isn't bigger than what's left in the packet (Fix a heap overflow)
647 LLC/SNAP: With -e, print the LLC header before the SNAP header; without it, cut the SNAP header
648 LLC: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
649 LLC: Clean up printing of LLC packets
650 LLC: Fix the printing of RFC 948-style IP packets
651 LLC: Skip the LLC and SNAP headers with -x for 802.11 and some other protocols
652 LLDP: Implement IANA OUI and LLDP MUD option
653 MPLS LSP ping: Update printing for RFC 4379, bug fixes, more bounds checks
654 MPLS: "length" is now the *remaining* packet length
655 MPLS: Add bounds and length checks (Fix a heap overflow)
656 NFS: Don't assume the ONC RPC header is nicely aligned
657 NFS: Don't overflow the Opaque_Handle buffer (Fix a segmentation fault)
658 NFS: Don't run past the end of an NFSv3 file handle
659 OLSR: Add a test to cover a HNA sgw case
660 OLSR: Fix 'Advertised networks' count
661 OLSR: Fix printing of smart-gateway HNAs in IPv4
662 OSPF: Add a bounds check for the Hello packet options
663 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
664 OSPF: Fix a segmentation fault
665 OSPF: Fix printing 'ospf_topology_values' default
666 OTV: Add missing bounds checks
667 PGM: Print the formatted IP address, not the raw binary address, as a string
668 PIM: Add some bounds checking (Fix a heap overflow)
669 PIMv2: Fix checksumming of Register messages
670 PPP: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
671 PPP: Report invalid PAP AACK/ANAK packets
672 Q.933: Add a missing bounds check
673 RADIUS: Add Value 13 "VLAN" to Tunnel-Type attribute
674 RADIUS: Filter out non-printable characters
675 RADIUS: Translate UDP/1700 as RADIUS
676 RESP: Do better checking of RESP packets
677 RPKI-RTR: Add a return value check for "fn_printn" call
678 RPKI-RTR: Remove printing when truncated condition already detected
679 RPL: Fix 'Consistency Check' control code
680 RPL: Fix suboption print
681 RSVP: An INTEGRITY object in a submessage covers only the submessage
682 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop; Add bounds and length checks
683 RSVP: Fix some if statements missing brackets
684 RSVP: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
685 RTCP: Add some bounds checks
686 RTP: Add some bounds checks, fix two segmentation faults
687 SCTP: Do more bounds checking
688 SFLOW: Fix bounds checking
689 SLOW: Fix bugs, add checks
690 SMB: Before fetching the flags2 field, make sure we have it
691 SMB: Do bounds checks on NBNS resource types and resource data lengths
692 SNMP: Clean up the "have libsmi but no modules loaded" case
693 SNMP: Clean up the object abbreviation list and fix the code to match them
694 SNMP: Do bounds checks when printing character and octet strings
695 SNMP: Improve ASN.1 bounds checks
696 SNMP: More bounds and length checks
697 STP: Add a bunch of bounds checks, and fix some printing (Fix heap overflows)
698 STP: Filter out non-printable characters
699 TCP: Add bounds and length checks for packets with TCP option 20
700 TCP: Correct TCP option Kind value for TCP Auth and add SCPS-TP
701 TCP: Fix two bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
702 TCP: Make sure we have the data offset field before fetching it (Fix a heap overflow)
703 TCP: Put TCP-AO option decoding right
704 TFTP: Don't use strchr() to scan packet data (Fix a heap overflow)
705 Telnet: Add some bounds checks
706 TokenRing: Fix -e output
707 UDLD: Fix an infinite loop
708 UDP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
709 UDP: Check against the packet length first
710 VAT: Add some bounds checks
711 VTP: Add a test on Mgmt Domain Name length
712 VTP: Add bounds checks and filter out non-printable characters
713 VXLAN: Add a bound check and a test case
714 ZeroMQ: Fix an infinite loop
716 Tuesday October 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca
717 Summary for 4.8.1 tcpdump release
718 Fix "-x" for Apple PKTAP and PPI packets
719 Improve separation frontend/backend (tcpdump/libnetdissect)
720 Fix display of timestamps with -tt, -ttt and -ttttt options
721 Add support for the Marvell Extended Distributed Switch Architecture header
722 Use PRIx64 to print a 64-bit number in hex.
723 Printer for HNCP (RFCs 7787 and 7788).
724 dagid is always an IPv6 address, not an opaque 128-bit string, and other fixes to RPL printer.
725 RSVP: Add bounds and length checks
726 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
727 Handle OpenSSL 1.1.x.
728 Initial support for the REdis Serialization Protocol known as RESP.
729 Add printing function for Generic Protocol Extension for VXLAN
730 draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-01
731 Network Service Header: draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-01
732 Don't recompile the filter if the new file has the same DLT.
733 Pass an adjusted struct pcap_pkthdr to the sub-printer.
734 Add three test cases for already fixed CVEs
736 CVE-2014-8768: Geonet
738 Don't do the DDP-over-UDP heuristic first: GitHub issue #499.
739 Use the new debugging routines in libpcap.
740 Harmonize TCP source or destination ports tests with UDP ones
741 Introduce data types to use for integral values in packet structures.
742 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop
743 Support of Type 3 and Type 4 LISP packets.
744 Don't require IPv6 library support in order to support IPv6 addresses.
745 Many many changes to support libnetdissect usage.
746 Add a test that makes unaligned accesses: GitHub issue #478.
747 add a DNSSEC test case: GH #445 and GH #467.
748 BGP: add decoding of ADD-PATH capability
749 fixes to LLC header printing, and RFC948-style IP packets
751 Friday April 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
752 Summary for 4.7.4 tcpdump release
753 RPKI to Router Protocol: Fix Segmentation Faults and other problems
754 RPKI to Router Protocol: print strings with fn_printn()
755 wb: fix some bounds checks
757 Wednesday March 11, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
758 Summary for 4.7.3 tcpdump release
759 Capsicum fixes for FreeBSD 10
761 Tuesday March 10, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
762 Summary for 4.7.2 tcpdump release
763 DCCP: update Packet Types with RFC4340/IANA names
764 fixes for CVE-2015-0261: IPv6 mobility header check issue
765 fixes for CVE-2015-2153, 2154, 2155: kday packets
767 Friday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
768 Summary for 4.7.0 tcpdump release
769 changes to hex printing of CDP packets
771 Radius: update Packet Type Codes and Attribute Types with RFC/IANA names
772 Add a routine to print "text protocols", and add FTP/HTTP/SMTP/RTSP support.
773 improvements to telnet printer, even if not -v
774 omit length for bcp, print-tcp uses it
775 formatting fixes for a bunch of protocols
776 new bounds checks for a number of protocols
777 split netflow 1,6, and 6 dissector up.
778 added geneve dissector
779 CVE-2014-9140 PPP dissector fixed.
781 Tuesday Sep. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
782 Summary for 4.6.2 tcpdump release
783 fix out-of-source-tree builds: find libpcap that is out of source
784 better configure check for libsmi
786 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
787 Summary for 4.6.1 tcpdump release
788 added FreeBSD capsicum
789 add a short option '#', same as long option '--number'
791 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
792 Summary for 4.6.0 tcpdump release
793 all of tcpdump is now using the new "NDO" code base (Thanks Denis!)
794 nflog, mobile, forces, pptp, AODV, AHCP, IPv6, OSPFv4, RPL, DHCPv6 enhancements/fixes
796 many new test cases: 82 in 4.5.1 to 133 in 4.6.0
797 many improvements to travis continuous integration system: OSX, and Coverity options
798 cleaned up some unnecessary header files
800 a number of unaligned access faults fixed
801 -A flag does not consider CR to be printable anymore
802 fx.lebail took over coverity baby sitting
803 default snapshot size increased to 256K for accommodate USB captures
804 WARNING: this release contains a lot of very worthwhile code churn.
806 Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
807 Summary for 4.5.2 tcpdump release
811 Monday Nov. 11, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca
812 Summary for 4.5.1 tcpdump release
815 Thursday Nov. 7, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca and guy@alum.mit.edu.
816 Summary for 4.5.0 tcpdump release
817 some NFSv4 fixes for printing
818 fix printing of unknown TCP options, and tcp fast-open
819 fixes for syslog parser
820 some gcc-version-specific flag tuning
821 adopt MacOS deprecation workarounds for openssl
822 improvements to babel printing
823 add OpenFlow 1.0 (no SSL) and test cases
825 added STBC Rx support
826 improvements to DHCPv6 decoder
827 clarify which autoconf is needed
828 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
829 than the mcr repository
831 Fixed IPv6 check on Solaris and other OSes requiring extra
832 networking libraries.
833 Add support for VXLAN (draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03),
834 and add "vxlan" as an option for -T.
835 Add support for OTV (draft-hasmit-otv-04).
836 fixes for DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO datalink types
839 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu.
840 Summary for 4.4.0 tcpdump release
841 RPKI-RTR (RFC6810) is now official (TCP Port 323)
842 Fix detection of OpenSSL libcrypto.
843 Add DNSSL (RFC6106) support.
844 Add "radius" as an option for -T.
845 Update Action codes for handle_action function according to
847 Decode DHCPv6 AFTR-Name option (RFC6334).
849 Fix printing of infinite lifetime in ICMPv6.
850 Added support for SPB, SPBM Service Identifier, and Unicast
851 Address sub-TLV in ISIS.
852 Decode RIPv2 authentication up to RFC4822.
853 Fix RIP Request/full table decoding issues.
854 On Linux systems with cap-ng.h, drop root privileges
855 using Linux Capabilities.
856 Add support for reading multiple files.
857 Add MS NLB heartbeat printer.
858 Separate multiple nexthops in BGP.
860 Wednesday November 28, 2012 guy@alum.mit.edu.
861 Summary for 4.3.1 tcpdump release
862 Print "LLDP, length N" for LLDP packets even when not in verbose
863 mode, so something is printed even if only the timestamp is
866 Print NTP poll interval correctly (it's an exponent, so print
867 both its raw value and 2^value)
868 Document that "-e" is used to get MAC addresses
869 More clearly document that you need to escape or quote
870 backslashes in filter expressions on the command line
871 Fix some "the the" in the man page
872 Use the right maximum path length
873 Don't treat 192_1_2, when passed to -i, as an interface number
875 Friday April 3, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca.
876 Summary for 4.3.0 tcpdump release
877 fixes for forces: SPARSE data (per RFC 5810)
878 some more test cases added
879 updates to documentation on -l, -U and -w flags.
880 Fix printing of BGP optional headers.
881 Tried to include DLT_PFSYNC support, failed due to headers required.
883 Fix LLDP Network Policy bit definitions.
884 fixes for IGMPv3's Max Response Time: it is in units of 0.1 second.
885 SIGUSR1 can be used rather than SIGINFO for stats
886 permit -n flag to affect print-ip for protocol numbers
887 ND_OPT_ADVINTERVAL is in milliseconds, not seconds
888 Teach PPPoE parser about RFC 4638
891 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
892 Summary for 4.2.1 tcpdump release
893 Only build the Babel printer if IPv6 is enabled.
894 Support Babel on port 6696 as well as 6697.
895 Include ppi.h in release tarball.
896 Include all the test files in the release tarball, and don't
897 "include" test files that no longer exist.
898 Don't assume we have <rpc/rpc.h> - check for it.
899 Support "-T carp" as a way of dissecting IP protocol 112 as CARP
901 Support Hilscher NetAnalyzer link-layer header format.
902 Constify some pointers and fix compiler warnings.
903 Get rid of never-true test.
904 Fix an unintended fall-through in a case statement in the ARP
906 Fix several cases where sizeof(sizeof(XXX)) was used when just
907 sizeof(XXX) was intended.
908 Make stricter sanity checks in the ES-IS printer.
909 Get rid of some GCCisms that caused builds to fai with compilers
910 that don't support them.
911 Fix typo in man page.
912 Added length checks to Babel printer.
914 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
916 merged 802.15.4 decoder from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov
918 updates to forces for new port numbers
919 Use "-H", not "-h", for the 802.11s option. (-h always help)
920 Better ICMPv6 checksum handling.
921 add support for the RPKI/Router Protocol, per -ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-12
922 get rid of uuencoded pcap test files, git can do binary.
923 sFlow changes for 64-bit counters.
924 fixes for PPI packet header handling and printing.
925 Add DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) version 1.01.
926 Babel dissector, from Juliusz Chroboczek and Grégoire Henry.
927 improvements to radiotap for rate values > 127.
928 Many improvements to ForCES decode, including fix SCTP TML port
929 updated RPL type code to RPL-17 draft
930 Improve printout of DHCPv6 options.
931 added support and test case for QinQ (802.1q VLAN) packets
932 Handle DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS like DLT_IEEE802_15_4.
933 Build fixes for Sparc and other machines with alignment restrictions.
934 Merged changes from Debian package.
935 PGM: Add ACK decoding and add PGMCC DATA and FEEDBACK options.
936 Build fixes for OSX (Snow Leopard and others)
937 Add support for IEEE 802.15.4 packets
939 Tue. July 20, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
940 Summary for 4.1.2 tcpdump release
941 If -U is specified, flush the file after creating it, so it's
943 Fix TCP flags output description, and some typos, in the man
945 Add a -h flag, and only attempt to recognize 802.11s mesh
947 When printing the link-layer type list, send *all* output to
949 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
952 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
953 Summary for 4.1.1 tcpdump release
954 Fix build on systems with PF, such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
955 Don't blow up if a zero-length link-layer address is passed to
958 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
959 Summary for 4.1.0 tcpdump release
960 Fix printing of MAC addresses for VLAN frames with a length
962 Add some additional bounds checks and use the EXTRACT_ macros
964 Add a -b flag to print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT
965 notation rather than ASPLAIN notation
966 Add ICMPv6 RFC 5006 support
967 Decode the access flags in NFS access requests
968 Handle the new DLT_ for memory-mapped USB captures on Linux
969 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
970 Print name of device (when -L is used)
971 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
973 Add support for RPL DIO
974 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
975 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
976 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
977 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
978 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
979 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
980 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
982 Add printer for ForCES
983 Handle frames with an FCS
984 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
985 Fix TCP sequence number printing
986 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
987 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
988 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
989 Lots of code clean ups
991 Update testcases to make output changes
992 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
993 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
995 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
996 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
997 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
998 Add support for 802.11 AVS
999 Add support for SMB over TCP
1000 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
1001 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
1002 Add support for ikev2 printing
1003 Update support for decoding AFS
1004 Update DHCPv6 printer
1005 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
1006 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
1007 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
1008 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
1010 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
1012 Rework OSPFv3 printer
1013 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
1014 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
1015 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
1016 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
1017 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
1018 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
1019 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
1020 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
1021 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
1022 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
1025 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
1027 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
1029 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
1030 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
1031 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
1032 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
1033 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
1034 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
1035 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
1036 if it got MSG_DENIED.
1037 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
1038 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependency.
1040 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
1041 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
1042 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
1043 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
1044 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
1046 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
1047 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
1048 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
1049 Add support in pflog for additional values
1050 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
1051 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
1052 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
1053 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
1054 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
1055 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
1056 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
1057 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
1058 https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
1059 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
1060 extensions from olsr.org
1061 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
1063 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
1064 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
1065 Add support for the cisco proprietary 'dynamic trunking protocol'
1066 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
1067 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
1070 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
1072 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
1073 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
1074 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
1075 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
1076 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
1077 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
1078 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
1079 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
1080 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
1081 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
1082 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
1083 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
1084 Cleanup the bootp printer
1085 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
1086 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
1087 the options output a bit.
1088 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
1089 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
1090 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
1091 Fixes for 64bit compiling
1092 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
1093 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
1094 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
1095 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
1096 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
1099 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
1100 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
1101 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
1103 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
1105 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
1106 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
1107 object printer to latest spec.
1108 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
1110 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
1111 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
1112 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
1113 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
1114 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
1115 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
1118 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
1120 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
1121 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
1122 including improved 64bit support
1124 Support for sending packets
1125 Many compilation fixes on most platforms
1126 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
1127 Improved Unicode support
1129 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
1131 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
1132 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
1133 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
1135 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
1137 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
1139 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
1145 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
1148 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
1151 Radio - via radiotap
1155 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
1157 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
1160 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
1162 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
1163 https://web.archive.org/web/20160328035955/https://www.rapid7.com/resources/advisories/R7-0017.jsp
1164 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
1165 some MINGW32 changes.
1166 updates for autoconf 2.5
1167 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
1168 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
1169 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
1170 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
1171 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
1172 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
1173 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
1174 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
1175 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
1176 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
1177 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
1179 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
1181 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
1182 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
1184 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
1185 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
1186 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
1187 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
1188 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
1189 PPPoE payload length headers.
1190 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
1191 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
1192 BGP output split into multiple lines.
1193 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
1194 Fixes to PIM decoder.
1195 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
1196 unaligned access work.
1197 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
1198 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
1199 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
1200 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
1201 New -A flag -print ascii only
1202 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
1203 more verbosity for tftp decoder
1206 cross compilation patches
1207 RFC 3561 AODV support.
1208 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
1209 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
1210 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
1211 fixes for DECnet support.
1212 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
1213 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
1215 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
1217 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid isakmp packets.
1218 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
1219 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid BGP packets.
1220 Fixed buffer overflow with certain invalid NFS packets.
1221 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
1222 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
1223 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
1224 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
1225 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
1226 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
1227 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
1229 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
1230 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
1231 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
1232 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
1233 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
1235 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
1236 keyword "ipx" added.
1237 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
1238 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
1239 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
1240 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
1241 improvements to SNAP demux.
1242 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
1243 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
1244 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
1245 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
1246 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
1247 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
1248 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
1249 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
1250 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
1251 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
1252 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
1253 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
1254 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
1255 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
1256 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
1257 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
1258 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
1259 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
1260 Better Linux libc5 compat.
1261 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
1262 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
1263 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
1264 New time stamp formats documented.
1265 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
1266 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
1267 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
1268 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
1269 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
1270 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
1271 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
1272 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
1273 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
1274 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
1275 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
1276 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
1277 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
1278 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
1279 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
1280 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
1281 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
1282 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
1283 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
1284 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
1285 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
1286 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
1287 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
1288 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
1290 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
1292 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
1293 Cleaned up documentation.
1294 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
1295 IPsec changes/cleanups.
1296 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
1298 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
1299 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
1301 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
1302 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
1303 depending upon system dependent mappings of DLT_* types.
1305 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
1307 Updated autoconf stock files.
1309 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
1311 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
1312 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
1314 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
1316 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
1319 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
1320 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
1321 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
1323 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
1324 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
1325 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
1328 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
1330 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
1331 - switch to config.h for autoconf
1332 - unify RCSID strings
1333 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
1334 - Really fix the RIP printer
1335 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
1336 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
1337 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
1338 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
1339 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
1342 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
1343 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
1344 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
1345 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
1346 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
1347 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
1348 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
1350 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
1351 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
1352 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
1354 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
1356 - permit building in different directories.
1358 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
1360 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
1363 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
1366 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
1367 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
1368 change date format to the right one.
1370 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
1371 - Created tcpdump.org repository
1373 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
1375 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
1377 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
1378 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1380 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
1381 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
1383 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
1385 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
1387 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
1390 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
1392 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
1393 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
1396 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
1397 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
1399 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
1402 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
1403 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
1405 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
1408 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
1409 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
1411 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
1412 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
1413 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1415 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
1416 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
1418 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
1421 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
1423 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
1424 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
1426 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
1427 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
1429 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
1432 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
1433 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
1435 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
1437 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
1439 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
1441 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
1442 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
1444 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
1446 - Added Linux support.
1448 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
1451 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
1453 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
1455 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
1456 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
1458 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
1460 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
1463 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
1464 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
1466 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
1467 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
1468 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1470 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
1472 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
1473 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
1475 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
1477 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
1478 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
1479 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
1480 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
1481 first block N times).
1483 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
1484 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
1486 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
1488 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1491 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
1492 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1494 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
1497 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
1498 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
1500 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1502 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
1503 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
1505 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
1506 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1508 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
1509 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
1511 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
1512 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1514 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
1516 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
1517 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
1519 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
1521 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
1522 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1524 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
1525 (steve@research.oknet.com)
1527 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
1528 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1530 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
1532 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
1533 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
1535 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
1536 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1538 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1539 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
1541 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
1543 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
1545 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
1547 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
1548 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
1550 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
1553 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
1555 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
1556 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
1558 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
1560 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1561 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
1564 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1566 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
1567 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
1568 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
1571 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
1573 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
1576 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
1579 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
1581 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
1582 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
1584 - Port to GNU autoconf.
1586 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
1587 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
1589 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
1590 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
1592 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
1594 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
1595 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
1597 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
1599 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
1601 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
1602 (cslater@imatek.com).
1604 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
1606 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
1607 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
1609 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
1610 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
1612 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
1614 - Add support for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1616 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
1617 wrong on little endian machines).
1619 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
1622 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
1623 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
1625 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
1626 selective acknowledgment case.
1628 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
1631 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
1632 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
1635 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
1636 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1638 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
1639 Honig (jhc@bsdi.com)
1642 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
1644 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
1647 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
1648 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
1649 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
1651 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
1652 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1653 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
1655 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
1657 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1659 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
1661 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
1662 "released" one in late 1995.
1664 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
1666 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
1668 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
1669 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
1670 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1672 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
1673 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1675 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
1676 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
1678 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
1679 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
1681 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
1683 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
1685 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
1687 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
1689 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
1691 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
1692 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1694 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
1695 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
1696 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
1697 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
1698 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
1699 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
1700 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
1702 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
1705 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
1706 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
1707 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
1709 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
1712 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
1713 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
1715 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
1716 packaged separately).
1718 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
1720 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
1723 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
1724 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
1726 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
1729 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
1730 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
1732 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
1733 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
1734 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
1735 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
1736 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
1737 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
1738 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
1739 with "not ip proto 4".)
1741 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
1742 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1744 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1746 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
1747 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
1748 Add && and || operators
1750 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
1752 - Fix bug with -c flag.
1754 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
1756 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
1759 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
1760 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
1762 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
1764 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
1765 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
1766 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
1768 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
1769 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
1770 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
1772 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
1773 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
1775 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
1777 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
1779 - Internal release (never publicly exported).
1781 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
1783 - Various byte ordering fixes.
1785 - Add truncation checks.
1787 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
1789 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
1791 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
1793 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
1796 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
1797 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
1799 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
1801 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
1803 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
1805 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
1806 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
1808 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
1810 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
1812 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
1814 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
1816 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
1817 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
1819 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
1820 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
1821 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
1822 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
1824 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
1825 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
1826 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
1827 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
1829 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
1830 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
1831 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
1833 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
1836 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
1838 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
1839 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. tcpdump has been tested under
1840 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
1841 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
1843 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
1845 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
1847 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
1849 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
1850 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
1852 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
1853 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
1855 - IP options are now printed.
1857 - RIP packets are now printed.
1859 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
1860 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
1861 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
1862 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
1864 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
1865 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
1868 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
1869 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
1870 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
1871 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
1874 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
1875 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
1876 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
1877 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
1878 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
1879 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
1880 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
1881 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
1883 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
1885 - Initial public release.