1 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
2 Summary for 5.0.0 tcpdump release (so far!)
3 Add protocol decoding for:
5 Refine protocol decoding for:
6 BFD: Add support for S-BFD and spell LAG in uppercase.
7 BGP: Parse BGP extended message support capability
8 BGP: Deprecate DPA, ADVERTISER and RCID_PATH path attributes
9 BGP: Print Enhanced route refresh capability
10 BGP: Print enhanced route refresh message subtype
11 BGP: Parse rfc9072 (Extended Optional Parameters Length for BGP OPEN Message)
12 BGP: Add support for BFD cease subcode
13 BGP: Add support for Hard Reset notification and GR N flag
14 BGP: Handle ORF in Route-Refresh messages
15 BGP: add dissector for BGPsec capability and path
16 BGP: Add Origin Validation State extended community
17 BGP: Add support for BGP Role capability and OTC attribute
18 BGP: Fix most printing code to print directly rather than filling
19 in a fixed-size buffer to be printed later
20 ICMP: add dissector for ICMP Interface Identification Object
21 ICMP: print RFC8335 PROBE extended echo/reply messages.
22 IEEE 802.11: include the Mesh ID field while printing management
24 NetFlow: Use tcp_flag_values[] for TCP flags.
25 NTP: Check that the entire extension field is in the capture even
27 NTP: Print kiss codes relevant for NTP debugging.
28 MPTCP: parse MPC data_len field, print flags from MP_CAPABLE option.
29 OSPF: Fix printing of Traffic Engineering Link TLVs to correctly
30 advance the packet data pointer
31 OSPF: Print more truncation indications
32 OSPF: Add more length checks
33 SLL2: Translate interface indices to names on Linux only.
34 TCP: Add support for the AE (AccECN) flag.
36 Add optional unit suffix on -C file size.
37 Add --print-sampling to print every Nth packet instead of all.
38 Add --lengths option to print the captured and original packet lengths.
40 Drop support for building with versions of libpcap that don't
41 support all the libpcap 1.0 APIs.
42 Use %zu when printing a sizeof to squelch compiler warnings
43 Remove unused missing/snprintf.c.
44 Remove unused missing/strdup.c.
45 (FIXME: somebody please wrap the line below just before the release)
46 AODV, AppleTalk, BOOTP, CHDLC, DCCP, EAP, EGP, EIGRP, ForCES, Geneve, GRE, ICMP, Juniper, L2TP, mobile, MSDP, NetFlow, NFLOG, NTP, OLSR, pflog, PGM, RADIUS, RIP, RSVP, SCTP, SNMP, TCP, UDP, vsock: Modernize packet parsing style
47 DCCP, EGP: Replace custom code with tok2str()
48 UDP: Clean up address and port printing.
49 AppleTalk: Declutter appletalk.h.
50 IEEE 802.11: Simplify handle_action().
51 Provide GET_ macros for 4-byte and 8-byte floating-point numbers
52 and use them rather than custom code
53 Disregard setlinebuf(3), always use setvbuf(3).
54 Change Sun RPC code licence to BSD-3-Clause.
56 Autoconf: Remove detection of early IPv6 stacks.
57 Detect OS IPv6 support using AF_INET6 only.
58 Remove all remaining support for BSD/OS, IRIX, {OSF/1, Digital Unix,
59 Tru64 Unix}, SINIX and Ultrix.
60 Fix compiling on GNU/Hurd.
61 Make illumos build warning-free.
62 Makefile.in: Update the .c.o build rule (Remove hacks for old SunOS 4).
63 Autoconf: fix buggy tests for ether_ntohost().
64 CMake: Skip snprintf(3) tests when cross-compiling.
65 Makefile.in: Do not install a version-suffixed tcpdump binary if the
66 .devel file does not exists.
67 tests: On HP-UX use "diff -c" by default.
68 autogen.sh: Allow to configure Autoconf warnings.
70 man: Clarify the "any" pseudo-interface further.
72 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
73 Summary for 4.99.6 tcpdump release (so far!)
74 Refine protocol decoding for:
75 IPv6: Add a missing comma and remove a colon in the output.
76 TCP: Note if the Urgent Pointer is non-zero while URG flag not set,
77 if the verbose level is > 1 (option -vv and more).
78 TCP: Note if the Acknowledgment Number is non-zero while ACK flag not set,
79 if the verbose level is > 1 (option -vv and more).
81 Friday, August 30, 2024 / The Tcpdump Group
82 Summary for 4.99.5 tcpdump release
83 Refine protocol decoding for:
84 Arista: Use the test .pcap file from pull request #955 (HwInfo).
85 BGP: Fix an undefined behavior when it tries to parse a too-short packet.
86 CARP: Print the protocol name before any GET_().
87 CDP: only hex-dump unknown TLVs in verbose mode.
88 DHCP: parse the SZTP redirect tag.
89 DHCPv6: client-id/server-id DUID type 2 correction; parse the user class,
90 boot file URL, and SZTP redirect options; add DUID-UUID printing
92 DNS: Detect and correctly handle too-short URI RRs.
93 EAP: Assign ndo_protocol in the eap_print() function.
94 ESP: Don't use EVP_add_cipher_alias() (fixes building on OpenBSD 7.5).
95 Frame Relay (Multilink): Fix the Timestamp Information Element printing.
96 ICMPv6: Fix printing the Home Agent Address Discovery Reply Message.
97 IEEE 802.11: no need for an element ID in the structures for IEs, make
98 the length in the IE structures a u_int, include the "TA" field while
99 printing Block Ack Control frame.
100 IP: Enable TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) support; fix printing invalid
101 cases as invalid, not truncated; use ND_ICHECKMSG_ZU() to test the
103 IPv6: Fix printing invalid cases as invalid, not truncated; use
104 ND_ICHECKMSG_U() to print an invalid version.
105 IPv6: Fix invalid 32-bit versus 64-bit printouts of fragment headers.
106 ISAKMP: Fix printing Delete payload SPI when size is zero.
107 Kerberos: Print the protocol name, remove a redundant bounds check.
108 lwres: Fix an undefined behavior in pointer arithmetic.
109 OpenFlow 1.0: Fix indentation of PORT_MOD, improve handling of
110 some lengths, and fix handling of snapend.
111 TCP: Test ports < 1024 in port order to select the printer.
112 UDP: Move source port equal BCM_LI_PORT to bottom of long if else chain.
113 UDP: Test ports < 1024 in port order to select the printer.
114 LDP: Add missing fields of the Common Session Parameters TLV and fix the
115 offset for the A&D bits.
116 NFLOG: Use correct AF code points on all OSes.
117 NFS: Avoid printing non-ASCII characters.
118 OSPF: Pad TLVs in LS_OPAQUE_TYPE_RI to multiples of 4 bytes.
119 OSPF: Update LS-Ack printing not to run off the end of the packet.
120 OSPF6: Fix an undefined behavior.
121 pflog: use nd_ types in struct pfloghdr.
122 PPP: Check if there is some data to hexdump.
123 PPP: Remove an extra colon before LCP Callback Operation.
124 Use the buffer stack for de-escaping PPP; fixes CVE-2024-2397;
125 Note: This problem does not affect any tcpdump release.
126 PTP: Fix spelling of type SIGNALING, Parse major and minor version
127 correctly, Print majorSdoId field instead of just the first bit.
128 RIP: Make a couple trivial protocol updates.
129 RPKI-Router: Refine length and bounds checks.
130 RX: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
131 smbutil.c: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
132 SNMP: Fix two undefined behaviors.
133 Text protocols: Fix printing truncation if it is not the case.
134 ZEP: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
135 ZMTP: Replace custom code with bittok2str().
137 Print the supported time stamp types (-J) to stdout instead of stderr.
138 Print the list of data link types (-L) to stdout instead of stderr.
139 Use symmetrical quotation characters in error messages.
140 Update --version option to print 32/64-bit build and time_t size.
141 Improve error messages for invalid interface indexes specified
143 Support "3des" as an alias for "des_ede3_cbc" even if the crypto
144 library doesn't support adding aliases.
146 tcpdump: Fix a memory leak.
147 child_cleanup: reap as many child processes as possible.
148 Ignore failures when setting the default "any" device DLL to LINUX_SLL2.
149 Fix for backends which doesn't support capsicum.
150 Update ND_BYTES_BETWEEN() macro for better accuracy.
151 Update ND_BYTES_AVAILABLE_AFTER() macro for better accuracy.
152 Introduce new ND_ICHECK*() macros to deduplicate more code.
153 Skip privilege dropping when using -Z root on --with-user builds.
154 Add a nd_printjn() function.
155 Make nd_trunc_longjmp() not static inline.
156 Include <time.h> from netdissect.h.
157 Remove init_crc10_table() and the entourage.
158 Initialize tzcode early.
159 Capsicum support: Fix a 'not defined' macro error.
160 Update the "Error converting time" tests for packet times.
161 Fix warnings when building for 32-bit and defining _TIME_BITS=64.
162 Free interface list just before exiting where it wasn't being
164 Building and testing:
165 Add a configure option to help debugging (--enable-instrument-functions).
166 At build time require a proof of suitable snprintf(3) implementation in
167 libc (and document Solaris 9 as unsupported because of that).
168 Makefile.in: Add two "touch .devel" commands in the releasecheck target.
169 Autoconf: Get --with-user and --with-chroot right.
170 Autoconf: Fix --static-pcap-only test on Solaris 10.
171 Autoconf: Add some warning flags for clang 13 or newer.
172 Autoconf: Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2024-01-01.
173 Autoconf: Add autogen.sh, remove configure and config.h.in and put
174 these generated files in the release tarball.
175 Autoconf: Update the install-sh script to the 2020-11-14.01 version.
176 configure: Apply autoupdate 2.69.
177 CMake: improve the comment before project(tcpdump C).
178 Do not require vsnprintf().
179 tests: Use the -tttt option, by default, for the tests.
180 Autoconf, CMake: Get the size of a void * and a time_t.
181 Fix propagation of cc_werr_cflags() output.
182 Makefile.in: Fix the depend target.
183 mkdep: Exit with a non-zero status if a command fails.
184 Autoconf: use V_INCLS to update the list of include search paths.
185 Autoconf: don't put anything before -I and -L flags for local libpcap.
186 Autoconf, CMake: work around an Xcode 15+ issue.
187 Autoconf, CMake: use pkg-config and Homebrew when looking for
189 Fix Sun C invocation from CMake.
190 mkdep: Use TMPDIR if it is set and not null.
191 Add initial support for building with TinyCC.
192 Makefile.in: Use the variable MAKE instead of the make command.
193 Makefile.in: Add instrumentation configuration in releasecheck target.
194 Make various improvements to the TESTrun script.
195 Untangle detection of pcap_findalldevs().
196 Autoconf: don't use egrep, use $EGREP.
197 Autoconf: check for gethostbyaddr(), not gethostbyname().
198 Autoconf, CMake: search for gethostbyaddr() in libnetwork.
199 Make illumos build warning-free.
201 Fixed errors in doc/README.Win32.md and renamed it to README.windows.md.
202 Make various improvements to the man page.
203 Add initial README file for Haiku.
204 Make various improvements to CONTRIBUTING.md.
206 Friday, April 7, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
207 Summary for 4.99.4 tcpdump release
209 Fix spaces before tabs in indentation.
211 LSP ping: Fix "Unused value" warnings from Coverity.
212 CVE-2023-1801: Fix an out-of-bounds write in the SMB printer.
213 DNS: sync resource types with IANA.
214 ICMPv6: Update the output to show a RPL DAO field name.
215 Geneve: Fix the Geneve UDP port test.
216 Building and testing:
217 Require at least autoconf 2.69.
218 Don't check for strftime(), as it's in C90 and beyond.
219 Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2023-01-01,2023-01-21.
221 man: Document TCP flag names better.
223 Thursday, January 12, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
224 Summary for 4.99.3 tcpdump release
226 PTP: Use the proper values for the control field and print un-allocated
227 values for the message field as "Reserved" instead of "none".
229 smbutil.c: Replace obsolete function call (asctime)
230 Building and testing:
231 cmake: Update the minimum required version to 2.8.12 (except Windows).
232 CI: Introduce and use TCPDUMP_CMAKE_TAINTED.
233 Makefile.in: Add the releasecheck target.
234 Makefile.in: Add "make -s install" in the releasecheck target.
235 Cirrus CI: Run the "make releasecheck" command in the Linux task.
236 Makefile.in: Add the whitespacecheck target.
237 Cirrus CI: Run the "make whitespacecheck" command in the Linux task.
238 Address all shellcheck warnings in update-test.sh.
239 Makefile.in: Get rid of a remain of gnuc.h.
241 Reformat the installation notes (INSTALL.txt) in Markdown.
242 Convert CONTRIBUTING to Markdown.
243 CONTRIBUTING.md: Document the use of "protocol: " in a commit summary.
244 Add a README file for NetBSD.
245 Fix CMake build to set man page section numbers in tcpdump.1
247 Saturday, December 31, 2022 / The Tcpdump Group
248 Summary for 4.99.2 tcpdump release
250 BGP: Update cease notification decoding to RFC 9003.
251 BGP: decode BGP link-bandwidth extended community properly.
252 BGP: Fix parsing the AIGP attribute
253 BGP: make sure the path attributes don't go past the end of the packet.
254 BGP: Shutdown message can be up to 255 bytes length according to rfc9003
255 DSA: correctly determine VID.
256 EAP: fix some length checks and output issues.
257 802.11: Fix the misleading comment regarding "From DS", "To DS" Frame
259 802.11: Fetch the CF and TIM IEs a field at a time.
260 802.15.4, BGP, LISP: fix some length checks, compiler warnings,
261 and undefined behavior warnings.
262 PFLOG: handle LINKTYPE_PFLOG/DLT_PFLOG files from all OSes on all
264 RRCP: support more Realtek protocols than just RRCP.
265 MPLS: show the EXP field as TC, as per RFC 5462.
266 ICMP: redo MPLS Extension code as general ICMP Extension code.
267 VQP: Do not print unknown error codes twice.
268 Juniper: Add some bounds checks.
269 Juniper: Don't treat known DLT_ types as "Unknown".
270 lwres: Fix a length check, update a variable type.
271 EAP: Fix some undefined behaviors at runtime.
272 Ethernet: Rework the length checks, add a length check.
273 IPX: Add two length checks.
274 Zephyr: Avoid printing non-ASCII characters.
275 VRRP: Print the protocol name before any GET_().
276 DCCP: Get rid of trailing commas in lists.
277 Juniper: Report invalid packets as invalid, not truncated.
278 IPv6: Remove an obsolete code in an always-false #if wrapper.
279 ISAKMP: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
280 RADIUS: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
281 TCP: Fix an invalid check.
282 RESP: Fix an invalid check.
283 RESP: Remove an unnecessary test.
284 Arista: Refine the output format and print HwInfo.
285 sFlow: add support for IPv6 agent, add a length check.
286 VRRP: add support for IPv6.
287 OSPF: Update to match the Router Properties registry.
288 OSPF: Remove two unnecessary dereferences.
289 OSPF: Add support bit Nt RFC3101.
290 OSPFv3: Remove two unnecessary dereferences.
291 ICMPv6: Fix output for Router Renumbering messages.
292 ICMPv6: Fix the Node Information flags.
293 ICMPv6: Remove an unused macro and extra blank lines.
294 ICMPv6: Add a length check in the rpl_dio_print() function.
295 ICMPv6: Use GET_IP6ADDR_STRING() in the rpl_dio_print() function.
296 IPv6: Add some checks for the Hop-by-Hop Options header
297 IPv6: Add a check for the Jumbo Payload Hop-by-Hop option.
298 NFS: Fix the format for printing an unsigned int
299 PTP: fix printing of the correction fields
300 PTP: Use ND_LCHECK_U for checking invalid length.
301 WHOIS: Add its own printer source file and printer function
302 MPTCP: print length before subtype inside MPTCP options
303 ESP: Add a workaround to a "use-of-uninitialized-value".
304 PPP: Add tests to avoid incorrectly re-entering ppp_hdlc().
305 PPP: Don't process further if protocol is unknown (-e option).
306 PPP: Change the pointer to packet data.
307 ZEP: Add three length checks.
308 Add some const qualifiers.
309 Building and testing:
310 Update config.guess and config.sub.
311 Use AS_HELP_STRING macro instead of AC_HELP_STRING.
312 Handle some Autoconf/make errors better.
313 Fix an error when cross-compiling.
314 Use "git archive" for the "make releasetar" process.
315 Remove the release candidate rcX targets.
316 Mend "make check" on Solaris 9 with Autoconf.
317 Address assorted compiler warnings.
318 Fix auto-enabling of Capsicum on FreeBSD with Autoconf.
319 Treat "msys" as Windows for test exit statuses.
320 Clean up some help messages in configure.
321 Use unified diff by default.
322 Remove awk code from mkdep.
323 Fix configure test errors with Clang 15
324 CMake: Prevent stripping of the RPATH on installation.
325 AppVeyor CI: update Npcap site, update to 1.12 SDK.
326 Cirrus CI: Use the same configuration as for the main branch.
327 CI: Add back running tcpdump -J/-L and capture, now with Cirrus VMs.
328 Remove four test files (They are now in the libpcap tests directory).
329 On Solaris, for 64-bit builds, use the 64-bit pcap-config.
330 Tell CMake not to check for a C++ compiler.
331 CMake: Add a way to request -Werror and equivalents.
332 configure: Special-case macOS /usr/bin/pcap-config as we do in CMake.
333 configure: Use pcap-config --static-pcap-only if available.
334 configure: Use ac_c_werror_flag to force unknown compiler flags to fail.
335 configure: Use AC_COMPILE_IFELSE() and AC_LANG_SOURCE() for testing
337 Run the test that fails on OpenBSD only if we're not on OpenBSD.
339 Fix some snapend-changing routines to protect against pointer
341 Use __func__ from C99 in some function calls.
342 Memory allocator: Update nd_add_alloc_list() to a static function.
343 addrtoname.c: Fix two invalid tests.
344 Use more S_SUCCESS and S_ERR_HOST_PROGRAM in main().
345 Add some comments about "don't use GET_IP6ADDR_STRING()".
346 Assign ndo->ndo_packetp in pretty_print_packet().
347 Add ND_LCHECKMSG_U, ND_LCHECK_U, ND_LCHECKMSG_ZU and ND_LCHECK_ZU macros.
348 Update tok2strbuf() to a static function.
349 netdissect.h: Keep the link-layer dissectors names sorted.
350 setsignal(): Set SA_RESTART on non-lethal signals (REQ_INFO, FLUSH_PCAP)
351 to avoid corrupting binary pcap output.
352 Use __builtin_unreachable().
353 Fail if nd_push_buffer() or nd_push_snaplen() fails.
354 Improve code style and fix many typos.
356 Some man page cleanups.
357 Update the print interface for the packet count to stdout.
358 Note that we require compilers to support at least some of C99.
359 Update AIX and Solaris-related specifics.
360 INSTALL.txt: Add doc/README.*, delete the deleted win32 directory.
361 Update README.md and README.Win32.md.
362 Update some comments with new RFC numbers.
364 Wednesday, June 9, 2021 by gharris
365 Summary for 4.99.1 tcpdump release
367 Squelch some compiler warnings
368 ICMP: Update the snapend for some nested IP packets.
369 MACsec: Update the snapend thus the ICV field is not payload
371 EIGRP: Fix packet header fields
372 SMB: Disable printer by default in CMake builds
373 OLSR: Print the protocol name even if the packet is invalid
374 MSDP: Print ": " before the protocol name
375 ESP: Remove padding, padding length and next header from the buffer
376 DHCPv6: Update the snapend for nested DHCPv6 packets
377 OpenFlow 1.0: Get snapend right for nested frames.
378 TCP: Update the snapend before decoding a MPTCP option
379 Ethernet, IEEE 802.15.4, IP, L2TP, TCP, ZEP: Add bounds checks
380 ForCES: Refine SPARSEDATA-TLV length check.
381 ASCII/hex: Use nd_trunc_longjmp() in truncation cases
382 GeoNet: Add a ND_TCHECK_LEN() call
383 Replace ND_TCHECK_/memcpy() pairs with GET_CPY_BYTES().
384 BGP: Fix overwrites of global 'astostr' temporary buffer
385 ARP: fix overwrites of static buffer in q922_string().
386 Frame Relay: have q922_string() handle errors better.
387 Building and testing:
388 Rebuild configure script when building release
389 Fix "make clean" for out-of-tree autotools builds
390 CMake: add stuff from CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
392 man: Update a reference as www.cifs.org is gone.
393 man: Update DNS sections
395 Fix a compile error with Sun C
397 Wednesday, December 30, 2020, by mcr@sandelman.ca, denis and fxl.
398 Summary for 4.99.0 tcpdump release
399 CVE-2018-16301: For the -F option handle large input files safely.
400 Improve the contents, wording and formatting of the man page.
401 Print unsupported link-layer protocol packets in hex.
402 Add support for new network protocols and DLTs: Arista, Autosar SOME/IP,
403 Broadcom LI and Ethernet switches tag, IEEE 802.15.9, IP-over-InfiniBand
404 (IPoIB), Linux SLL2, Linux vsockmon, MACsec, Marvell Distributed Switch
405 Architecture, OpenFlow 1.3, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), SSH, WHOIS,
406 ZigBee Encapsulation Protocol (ZEP).
407 Make protocol-specific updates for: AH, DHCP, DNS, ESP, FRF.16, HNCP,
408 ICMP6, IEEE 802.15.4, IPv6, IS-IS, Linux SLL, LLDP, LSP ping, MPTCP, NFS,
409 NSH, NTP, OSPF, OSPF6, PGM, PIM, PPTP, RADIUS, RSVP, Rx, SMB, UDLD,
412 Make SLL2 the default for Linux "any" pseudo-device.
413 Add --micro and --nano shorthands.
414 Add --count to print a counter only instead of decoding.
415 Add --print, to cause packet printing even with -w.
416 Add support for remote capture if libpcap supports it.
417 Display the "wireless" flag and connection status.
418 Flush the output packet buffer on a SIGUSR2.
419 Add the snapshot length to the "reading from file ..." message.
420 Fix local time printing (DST offset in timestamps).
421 Allow -C arguments > 2^31-1 GB if they can fit into a long.
422 Handle very large -f files by rejecting them.
423 Report periodic stats only when safe to do so.
424 Print the number of packets captured only as often as necessary.
425 With no -s, or with -s 0, don't specify the snapshot length with newer
427 Improve version and usage message printing.
428 Building and testing:
429 Install into bindir, not sbindir.
430 autoconf: replace --with-system-libpcap with --disable-local-libpcap.
431 Require the compiler to support C99.
432 Better detect and use various C compilers and their features.
433 Add CMake as the second build system.
434 Make out-of-tree builds more reliable.
435 Use pkg-config to detect libpcap if available.
436 Improve Windows support.
437 Add more tests and improve the scripts that run them.
438 Test both with "normal" and "x87" floating-point.
439 Eliminate dependency on libdnet.
441 Print a proper error message about monitor mode VAP.
442 Use libcasper if available.
443 Fix failure to capture on RDMA device.
444 Include the correct capsicum header.
446 Start the transition to longjmp() for packet truncation handling.
447 Introduce new helper functions, including GET_*(), nd_print_protocol(),
448 nd_print_invalid(), nd_print_trunc(), nd_trunc_longjmp() and others.
449 Put integer signedness right in many cases.
450 Introduce nd_uint*, nd_mac_addr, nd_ipv4 and nd_ipv6 types to fix
451 alignment issues, especially on SPARC.
452 Fix many C compiler, Coverity, UBSan and cppcheck warnings.
453 Fix issues detected with AddressSanitizer.
454 Remove many workarounds for older compilers and OSes.
455 Add a sanity check on packet header length.
456 Add and remove plenty of bounds checks.
457 Clean up pcap_findalldevs() call to find the first interface.
458 Use a short timeout, rather than immediate mode, for text output.
459 Handle DLT_ENC files *not* written on the same OS and byte-order host.
460 Add, and use, macros to do locale-independent case mapping.
461 Use a table instead of getprotobynumber().
462 Get rid of ND_UNALIGNED and ND_TCHECK().
463 Make roundup2() generally available.
464 Resync SMI list against Wireshark.
467 Friday, September 20, 2019, by mcr@sandelman.ca
468 A huge thank you to Denis, Francois-Xavier and Guy who did much of the heavy lifting.
469 Summary for 4.9.3 tcpdump release
470 Fix buffer overflow/overread vulnerabilities:
472 CVE-2018-14468 (FrameRelay)
473 CVE-2018-14469 (IKEv1)
474 CVE-2018-14470 (BABEL)
475 CVE-2018-14466 (AFS/RX)
477 CVE-2018-14462 (ICMP)
478 CVE-2018-14465 (RSVP)
481 CVE-2018-14463 (VRRP)
483 CVE-2018-10103 (SMB - partially fixed, but SMB printing disabled)
484 CVE-2018-10105 (SMB - too unreliably reproduced, SMB printing disabled)
485 CVE-2018-14880 (OSPF6)
488 CVE-2018-16227 (802.11)
489 CVE-2018-16229 (DCCP)
493 CVE-2018-16228 (HNCP)
495 CVE-2019-15167 (VRRP)
496 Fix for cmdline argument/local issues:
497 CVE-2018-14879 (tcpdump -V)
499 Sunday September 3, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
500 Summary for 4.9.2 tcpdump release
501 Do not use getprotobynumber() for protocol name resolution. Do not do
502 any protocol name resolution if -n is specified.
503 Improve errors detection in the test scripts.
504 Fix a segfault with OpenSSL 1.1 and improve OpenSSL usage.
505 Clean up IS-IS printing.
506 Fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities:
507 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
508 CVE-2017-13011 (bittok2str_internal)
509 Fix infinite loop vulnerabilities:
510 CVE-2017-12989 (RESP)
511 CVE-2017-12990 (ISAKMP)
513 CVE-2017-12997 (LLDP)
514 Fix buffer over-read vulnerabilities:
515 CVE-2017-11541 (safeputs)
516 CVE-2017-11542 (PIMv1)
517 CVE-2017-12893 (SMB/CIFS)
518 CVE-2017-12894 (lookup_bytestring)
519 CVE-2017-12895 (ICMP)
520 CVE-2017-12896 (ISAKMP)
521 CVE-2017-12897 (ISO CLNS)
523 CVE-2017-12899 (DECnet)
524 CVE-2017-12900 (tok2strbuf)
525 CVE-2017-12901 (EIGRP)
526 CVE-2017-12902 (Zephyr)
527 CVE-2017-12985 (IPv6)
528 CVE-2017-12986 (IPv6 routing headers)
529 CVE-2017-12987 (IEEE 802.11)
530 CVE-2017-12988 (telnet)
532 CVE-2017-12992 (RIPng)
533 CVE-2017-12993 (Juniper)
535 CVE-2017-12996 (PIMv2)
536 CVE-2017-12998 (ISO IS-IS)
537 CVE-2017-12999 (ISO IS-IS)
538 CVE-2017-13000 (IEEE 802.15.4)
540 CVE-2017-13002 (AODV)
542 CVE-2017-13004 (Juniper)
544 CVE-2017-13006 (L2TP)
545 CVE-2017-13007 (Apple PKTAP)
546 CVE-2017-13008 (IEEE 802.11)
547 CVE-2017-13009 (IPv6 mobility)
548 CVE-2017-13010 (BEEP)
549 CVE-2017-13012 (ICMP)
551 CVE-2017-13014 (White Board)
553 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
554 CVE-2017-13016 (ISO ES-IS)
555 CVE-2017-13017 (DHCPv6)
559 CVE-2017-13021 (ICMPv6)
561 CVE-2017-13023 (IPv6 mobility)
562 CVE-2017-13024 (IPv6 mobility)
563 CVE-2017-13025 (IPv6 mobility)
564 CVE-2017-13026 (ISO IS-IS)
565 CVE-2017-13027 (LLDP)
566 CVE-2017-13028 (BOOTP)
569 CVE-2017-13031 (IPv6 fragmentation header)
570 CVE-2017-13032 (RADIUS)
573 CVE-2017-13035 (ISO IS-IS)
574 CVE-2017-13036 (OSPFv3)
577 CVE-2017-13039 (ISAKMP)
578 CVE-2017-13040 (MPTCP)
579 CVE-2017-13041 (ICMPv6)
580 CVE-2017-13042 (HNCP)
582 CVE-2017-13044 (HNCP)
585 CVE-2017-13047 (ISO ES-IS)
586 CVE-2017-13048 (RSVP)
588 CVE-2017-13050 (RPKI-Router)
589 CVE-2017-13051 (RSVP)
592 CVE-2017-13054 (LLDP)
593 CVE-2017-13055 (ISO IS-IS)
594 CVE-2017-13687 (Cisco HDLC)
595 CVE-2017-13688 (OLSR)
596 CVE-2017-13689 (IKEv1)
597 CVE-2017-13690 (IKEv2)
598 CVE-2017-13725 (IPv6 routing headers)
600 Sunday July 23, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
601 Summary for 4.9.1 tcpdump release
602 CVE-2017-11108/Fix bounds checking for STP.
603 Make assorted documentation updates and fix a few typos in tcpdump output.
604 Fixup -C for file size >2GB (GH #488).
605 Show AddressSanitizer presence in version output.
606 Fix a bug in test scripts (exposed in GH #613).
607 On FreeBSD adjust Capsicum capabilities for netmap.
608 On Linux fix a use-after-free when the requested interface does not exist.
610 Wednesday January 18, 2017 devel.fx.lebail@orange.fr
611 Summary for 4.9.0 tcpdump release
613 Fix some heap overflows found with American Fuzzy Lop by Hanno Boeck and others
614 (More information in the log with CVE-2016-* and CVE-2017-*)
615 Change the way protocols print link-layer addresses (Fix heap overflows
616 in CALM-FAST and GeoNetworking printers)
617 Pass correct caplen value to ether_print() and some other functions
618 Fix lookup_nsap() to match what isonsap_string() expects
619 Clean up relative time stamp printing (Fix an array overflow)
620 Fix some alignment issues with GCC on Solaris 10 SPARC
621 Add some ND_TTEST_/ND_TCHECK_ macros to simplify writing bounds checks
622 Add a fn_printztn() which returns the number of bytes processed
623 Add nd_init() and nd_cleanup() functions. Improve libsmi support
624 Add CONTRIBUTING file
625 Add a summary comment in all printers
626 Compile with more warning options in devel mode if supported (-Wcast-qual, ...)
627 Fix some leaks found by Valgrind/Memcheck
628 Fix a bunch of de-constifications
629 Squelch some Coverity warnings and some compiler warnings
630 Update Coverity and Travis-CI setup
631 Update Visual Studio files
634 Fix capsicum support to work with zerocopy buffers in bpf
635 Try opening interfaces by name first, then by name-as-index
636 Work around pcap_create() failures fetching time stamp type lists
637 Fix a segmentation fault with 'tcpdump -J'
638 Improve addrtostr6() bounds checking
639 Add exit_tcpdump() function
640 Don't drop CAP_SYS_CHROOT before chrooting
641 Fixes issue where statistics not reported when -G and -W options used
644 802.11: Beginnings of 11ac radiotap support
645 802.11: Check the Protected bit for management frames
646 802.11: Do bounds checking on last_presentp before dereferencing it (Fix a heap overflow)
647 802.11: Fix the radiotap printer to handle the special bits correctly
648 802.11: If we have the MCS field, it's 11n
649 802.11: Only print unknown frame type or subtype messages once
650 802.11: Radiotap dBm values get printed as dB; Update a test output accordingly
651 802.11: Source and destination addresses were backwards
652 AH: Add a bounds check
653 AH: Report to our caller that dissection failed if a bounds check fails
654 AP1394: Print src > dst, not dst > src
655 ARP: Don't assume the target hardware address is <= 6 octets long (Fix a heap overflow)
656 ATALK: Add bounds and length checks (Fix heap overflows)
657 ATM: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
658 ATM: Fix an incorrect bounds check
659 BFD: Update specification from draft to RFC 5880
660 BFD: Update to print optional authentication field
661 BGP: Add support for the AIGP attribute (RFC7311)
662 BGP: Print LARGE_COMMUNITY Path Attribute
663 BGP: Update BGP numbers from IANA; Print minor values for FSM notification
664 BOOTP: Add a bounds check
665 Babel: Add decoder for source-specific extension
666 CDP: Filter out non-printable characters
667 CFM: Fixes to match the IEEE standard, additional bounds and length checks
668 CSLIP: Add more bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
669 ClassicalIPoATM: Add a bounds check on LLC+SNAP header (Fix a heap overflow)
670 DHCP: Fix MUDURL and TZ options
671 DHCPv6: Process MUDURL and TZ options
672 DHCPv6: Update Status Codes with RFCs/IANA names
673 DNS: Represent the "DNSSEC OK" bit as "DO" instead of "OK". Add a test case
674 DTP: Improve packet integrity checks
675 EGP: Fix bounds checks
676 ESP: Don't use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() in OpenSSL 1.1.0 or later
677 Ethernet: Add some bounds checking before calling isoclns_print (Fix a heap overflow)
678 Ethernet: Print the Length/Type field as length when needed
679 FDDI: Fix -e output for FDDI
680 FR: Add some packet-length checks and improve Q.933 printing (Fix heap overflows)
681 GRE: Add some bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
682 Geneve: Fix error message with invalid option length; Update list option classes
683 HNCP: Fix incorrect time interval format. Fix handling of IPv4 prefixes
684 ICMP6: Fetch a 32-bit big-endian quantity with EXTRACT_32BITS()
685 IGMP: Add a length check
686 IP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
687 IP: Check before fetching the protocol version (Fix a heap overflow)
688 IP: Don't try to dissect if IP version != 4 (Fix a heap overflow)
689 IP: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
690 IPComp: Check whether we have the CPI before we fetch it (Fix a heap overflow)
691 IPoFC: Fix -e output (IP-over-Fibre Channel)
692 IPv6: Don't overwrite the destination IPv6 address for routing headers
693 IPv6: Fix header printing
694 IPv6: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
695 ISAKMP: Clean up parsing of IKEv2 Security Associations
696 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Add support for Purge Originator Identifier (RFC6232) and test cases
697 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Don't overwrite packet data when checking the signature
698 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Filter out non-printable characters
699 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Fix segmentation faults
700 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
701 ISOCLNS: Add some bounds checks
702 Juniper: Make sure a Juniper header TLV isn't bigger than what's left in the packet (Fix a heap overflow)
703 LLC/SNAP: With -e, print the LLC header before the SNAP header; without it, cut the SNAP header
704 LLC: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
705 LLC: Clean up printing of LLC packets
706 LLC: Fix the printing of RFC 948-style IP packets
707 LLC: Skip the LLC and SNAP headers with -x for 802.11 and some other protocols
708 LLDP: Implement IANA OUI and LLDP MUD option
709 MPLS LSP ping: Update printing for RFC 4379, bug fixes, more bounds checks
710 MPLS: "length" is now the *remaining* packet length
711 MPLS: Add bounds and length checks (Fix a heap overflow)
712 NFS: Don't assume the ONC RPC header is nicely aligned
713 NFS: Don't overflow the Opaque_Handle buffer (Fix a segmentation fault)
714 NFS: Don't run past the end of an NFSv3 file handle
715 OLSR: Add a test to cover a HNA sgw case
716 OLSR: Fix 'Advertised networks' count
717 OLSR: Fix printing of smart-gateway HNAs in IPv4
718 OSPF: Add a bounds check for the Hello packet options
719 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
720 OSPF: Fix a segmentation fault
721 OSPF: Fix printing 'ospf_topology_values' default
722 OTV: Add missing bounds checks
723 PGM: Print the formatted IP address, not the raw binary address, as a string
724 PIM: Add some bounds checking (Fix a heap overflow)
725 PIMv2: Fix checksumming of Register messages
726 PPP: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
727 PPP: Report invalid PAP AACK/ANAK packets
728 Q.933: Add a missing bounds check
729 RADIUS: Add Value 13 "VLAN" to Tunnel-Type attribute
730 RADIUS: Filter out non-printable characters
731 RADIUS: Translate UDP/1700 as RADIUS
732 RESP: Do better checking of RESP packets
733 RPKI-RTR: Add a return value check for "fn_printn" call
734 RPKI-RTR: Remove printing when truncated condition already detected
735 RPL: Fix 'Consistency Check' control code
736 RPL: Fix suboption print
737 RSVP: An INTEGRITY object in a submessage covers only the submessage
738 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop; Add bounds and length checks
739 RSVP: Fix some if statements missing brackets
740 RSVP: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
741 RTCP: Add some bounds checks
742 RTP: Add some bounds checks, fix two segmentation faults
743 SCTP: Do more bounds checking
744 SFLOW: Fix bounds checking
745 SLOW: Fix bugs, add checks
746 SMB: Before fetching the flags2 field, make sure we have it
747 SMB: Do bounds checks on NBNS resource types and resource data lengths
748 SNMP: Clean up the "have libsmi but no modules loaded" case
749 SNMP: Clean up the object abbreviation list and fix the code to match them
750 SNMP: Do bounds checks when printing character and octet strings
751 SNMP: Improve ASN.1 bounds checks
752 SNMP: More bounds and length checks
753 STP: Add a bunch of bounds checks, and fix some printing (Fix heap overflows)
754 STP: Filter out non-printable characters
755 TCP: Add bounds and length checks for packets with TCP option 20
756 TCP: Correct TCP option Kind value for TCP Auth and add SCPS-TP
757 TCP: Fix two bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
758 TCP: Make sure we have the data offset field before fetching it (Fix a heap overflow)
759 TCP: Put TCP-AO option decoding right
760 TFTP: Don't use strchr() to scan packet data (Fix a heap overflow)
761 Telnet: Add some bounds checks
762 TokenRing: Fix -e output
763 UDLD: Fix an infinite loop
764 UDP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
765 UDP: Check against the packet length first
766 VAT: Add some bounds checks
767 VTP: Add a test on Mgmt Domain Name length
768 VTP: Add bounds checks and filter out non-printable characters
769 VXLAN: Add a bound check and a test case
770 ZeroMQ: Fix an infinite loop
772 Tuesday October 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca
773 Summary for 4.8.1 tcpdump release
774 Fix "-x" for Apple PKTAP and PPI packets
775 Improve separation frontend/backend (tcpdump/libnetdissect)
776 Fix display of timestamps with -tt, -ttt and -ttttt options
777 Add support for the Marvell Extended Distributed Switch Architecture header
778 Use PRIx64 to print a 64-bit number in hex.
779 Printer for HNCP (RFCs 7787 and 7788).
780 dagid is always an IPv6 address, not an opaque 128-bit string, and other fixes to RPL printer.
781 RSVP: Add bounds and length checks
782 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
783 Handle OpenSSL 1.1.x.
784 Initial support for the REdis Serialization Protocol known as RESP.
785 Add printing function for Generic Protocol Extension for VXLAN
786 draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-01
787 Network Service Header: draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-01
788 Don't recompile the filter if the new file has the same DLT.
789 Pass an adjusted struct pcap_pkthdr to the sub-printer.
790 Add three test cases for already fixed CVEs
792 CVE-2014-8768: Geonet
794 Don't do the DDP-over-UDP heuristic first: GitHub issue #499.
795 Use the new debugging routines in libpcap.
796 Harmonize TCP source or destination ports tests with UDP ones
797 Introduce data types to use for integral values in packet structures.
798 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop
799 Support of Type 3 and Type 4 LISP packets.
800 Don't require IPv6 library support in order to support IPv6 addresses.
801 Many many changes to support libnetdissect usage.
802 Add a test that makes unaligned accesses: GitHub issue #478.
803 add a DNSSEC test case: GH #445 and GH #467.
804 BGP: add decoding of ADD-PATH capability
805 fixes to LLC header printing, and RFC948-style IP packets
807 Friday April 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
808 Summary for 4.7.4 tcpdump release
809 RPKI to Router Protocol: Fix Segmentation Faults and other problems
810 RPKI to Router Protocol: print strings with fn_printn()
811 wb: fix some bounds checks
813 Wednesday March 11, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
814 Summary for 4.7.3 tcpdump release
815 Capsicum fixes for FreeBSD 10
817 Tuesday March 10, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
818 Summary for 4.7.2 tcpdump release
819 DCCP: update Packet Types with RFC4340/IANA names
820 fixes for CVE-2015-0261: IPv6 mobility header check issue
821 fixes for CVE-2015-2153, 2154, 2155: kday packets
823 Friday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
824 Summary for 4.7.0 tcpdump release
825 changes to hex printing of CDP packets
827 Radius: update Packet Type Codes and Attribute Types with RFC/IANA names
828 Add a routine to print "text protocols", and add FTP/HTTP/SMTP/RTSP support.
829 improvements to telnet printer, even if not -v
830 omit length for bcp, print-tcp uses it
831 formatting fixes for a bunch of protocols
832 new bounds checks for a number of protocols
833 split netflow 1,6, and 6 dissector up.
834 added geneve dissector
835 CVE-2014-9140 PPP dissector fixed.
837 Tuesday Sep. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
838 Summary for 4.6.2 tcpdump release
839 fix out-of-source-tree builds: find libpcap that is out of source
840 better configure check for libsmi
842 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
843 Summary for 4.6.1 tcpdump release
844 added FreeBSD capsicum
845 add a short option '#', same as long option '--number'
847 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
848 Summary for 4.6.0 tcpdump release
849 all of tcpdump is now using the new "NDO" code base (Thanks Denis!)
850 nflog, mobile, forces, pptp, AODV, AHCP, IPv6, OSPFv4, RPL, DHCPv6 enhancements/fixes
852 many new test cases: 82 in 4.5.1 to 133 in 4.6.0
853 many improvements to travis continuous integration system: OSX, and Coverity options
854 cleaned up some unnecessary header files
856 a number of unaligned access faults fixed
857 -A flag does not consider CR to be printable anymore
858 fx.lebail took over coverity baby sitting
859 default snapshot size increased to 256K for accommodate USB captures
860 WARNING: this release contains a lot of very worthwhile code churn.
862 Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
863 Summary for 4.5.2 tcpdump release
867 Monday Nov. 11, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca
868 Summary for 4.5.1 tcpdump release
871 Thursday Nov. 7, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca and guy@alum.mit.edu.
872 Summary for 4.5.0 tcpdump release
873 some NFSv4 fixes for printing
874 fix printing of unknown TCP options, and tcp fast-open
875 fixes for syslog parser
876 some gcc-version-specific flag tuning
877 adopt MacOS deprecation workarounds for openssl
878 improvements to babel printing
879 add OpenFlow 1.0 (no SSL) and test cases
881 added STBC Rx support
882 improvements to DHCPv6 decoder
883 clarify which autoconf is needed
884 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
885 than the mcr repository
887 Fixed IPv6 check on Solaris and other OSes requiring extra
888 networking libraries.
889 Add support for VXLAN (draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03),
890 and add "vxlan" as an option for -T.
891 Add support for OTV (draft-hasmit-otv-04).
892 fixes for DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO datalink types
895 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu.
896 Summary for 4.4.0 tcpdump release
897 RPKI-RTR (RFC6810) is now official (TCP Port 323)
898 Fix detection of OpenSSL libcrypto.
899 Add DNSSL (RFC6106) support.
900 Add "radius" as an option for -T.
901 Update Action codes for handle_action function according to
903 Decode DHCPv6 AFTR-Name option (RFC6334).
905 Fix printing of infinite lifetime in ICMPv6.
906 Added support for SPB, SPBM Service Identifier, and Unicast
907 Address sub-TLV in ISIS.
908 Decode RIPv2 authentication up to RFC4822.
909 Fix RIP Request/full table decoding issues.
910 On Linux systems with cap-ng.h, drop root privileges
911 using Linux Capabilities.
912 Add support for reading multiple files.
913 Add MS NLB heartbeat printer.
914 Separate multiple nexthops in BGP.
916 Wednesday November 28, 2012 guy@alum.mit.edu.
917 Summary for 4.3.1 tcpdump release
918 Print "LLDP, length N" for LLDP packets even when not in verbose
919 mode, so something is printed even if only the timestamp is
922 Print NTP poll interval correctly (it's an exponent, so print
923 both its raw value and 2^value)
924 Document that "-e" is used to get MAC addresses
925 More clearly document that you need to escape or quote
926 backslashes in filter expressions on the command line
927 Fix some "the the" in the man page
928 Use the right maximum path length
929 Don't treat 192_1_2, when passed to -i, as an interface number
931 Friday April 3, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca.
932 Summary for 4.3.0 tcpdump release
933 fixes for forces: SPARSE data (per RFC 5810)
934 some more test cases added
935 updates to documentation on -l, -U and -w flags.
936 Fix printing of BGP optional headers.
937 Tried to include DLT_PFSYNC support, failed due to headers required.
939 Fix LLDP Network Policy bit definitions.
940 fixes for IGMPv3's Max Response Time: it is in units of 0.1 second.
941 SIGUSR1 can be used rather than SIGINFO for stats
942 permit -n flag to affect print-ip for protocol numbers
943 ND_OPT_ADVINTERVAL is in milliseconds, not seconds
944 Teach PPPoE parser about RFC 4638
947 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
948 Summary for 4.2.1 tcpdump release
949 Only build the Babel printer if IPv6 is enabled.
950 Support Babel on port 6696 as well as 6697.
951 Include ppi.h in release tarball.
952 Include all the test files in the release tarball, and don't
953 "include" test files that no longer exist.
954 Don't assume we have <rpc/rpc.h> - check for it.
955 Support "-T carp" as a way of dissecting IP protocol 112 as CARP
957 Support Hilscher NetAnalyzer link-layer header format.
958 Constify some pointers and fix compiler warnings.
959 Get rid of never-true test.
960 Fix an unintended fall-through in a case statement in the ARP
962 Fix several cases where sizeof(sizeof(XXX)) was used when just
963 sizeof(XXX) was intended.
964 Make stricter sanity checks in the ES-IS printer.
965 Get rid of some GCCisms that caused builds to fai with compilers
966 that don't support them.
967 Fix typo in man page.
968 Added length checks to Babel printer.
970 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
972 merged 802.15.4 decoder from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov
974 updates to forces for new port numbers
975 Use "-H", not "-h", for the 802.11s option. (-h always help)
976 Better ICMPv6 checksum handling.
977 add support for the RPKI/Router Protocol, per -ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-12
978 get rid of uuencoded pcap test files, git can do binary.
979 sFlow changes for 64-bit counters.
980 fixes for PPI packet header handling and printing.
981 Add DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) version 1.01.
982 Babel dissector, from Juliusz Chroboczek and Grégoire Henry.
983 improvements to radiotap for rate values > 127.
984 Many improvements to ForCES decode, including fix SCTP TML port
985 updated RPL type code to RPL-17 draft
986 Improve printout of DHCPv6 options.
987 added support and test case for QinQ (802.1q VLAN) packets
988 Handle DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS like DLT_IEEE802_15_4.
989 Build fixes for Sparc and other machines with alignment restrictions.
990 Merged changes from Debian package.
991 PGM: Add ACK decoding and add PGMCC DATA and FEEDBACK options.
992 Build fixes for OSX (Snow Leopard and others)
993 Add support for IEEE 802.15.4 packets
995 Tue. July 20, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
996 Summary for 4.1.2 tcpdump release
997 If -U is specified, flush the file after creating it, so it's
999 Fix TCP flags output description, and some typos, in the man
1001 Add a -h flag, and only attempt to recognize 802.11s mesh
1003 When printing the link-layer type list, send *all* output to
1005 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
1008 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1009 Summary for 4.1.1 tcpdump release
1010 Fix build on systems with PF, such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
1011 Don't blow up if a zero-length link-layer address is passed to
1014 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
1015 Summary for 4.1.0 tcpdump release
1016 Fix printing of MAC addresses for VLAN frames with a length
1018 Add some additional bounds checks and use the EXTRACT_ macros
1020 Add a -b flag to print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT
1021 notation rather than ASPLAIN notation
1022 Add ICMPv6 RFC 5006 support
1023 Decode the access flags in NFS access requests
1024 Handle the new DLT_ for memory-mapped USB captures on Linux
1025 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
1026 Print name of device (when -L is used)
1027 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
1029 Add support for RPL DIO
1030 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
1031 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
1032 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
1033 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
1034 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
1035 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
1036 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
1038 Add printer for ForCES
1039 Handle frames with an FCS
1040 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
1041 Fix TCP sequence number printing
1042 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
1043 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
1044 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
1045 Lots of code clean ups
1047 Update testcases to make output changes
1048 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
1049 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
1051 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
1052 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
1053 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
1054 Add support for 802.11 AVS
1055 Add support for SMB over TCP
1056 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
1057 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
1058 Add support for ikev2 printing
1059 Update support for decoding AFS
1060 Update DHCPv6 printer
1061 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
1062 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
1063 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
1064 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
1066 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
1068 Rework OSPFv3 printer
1069 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
1070 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
1071 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
1072 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
1073 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
1074 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
1075 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
1076 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
1077 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
1078 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
1081 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
1083 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
1085 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
1086 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
1087 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
1088 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
1089 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
1090 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
1091 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
1092 if it got MSG_DENIED.
1093 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
1094 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependency.
1096 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
1097 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
1098 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
1099 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
1100 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
1102 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
1103 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
1104 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
1105 Add support in pflog for additional values
1106 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
1107 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
1108 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
1109 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
1110 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
1111 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
1112 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
1113 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
1114 https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
1115 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
1116 extensions from olsr.org
1117 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
1119 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
1120 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
1121 Add support for the cisco proprietary 'dynamic trunking protocol'
1122 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
1123 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
1126 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
1128 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
1129 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
1130 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
1131 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
1132 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
1133 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
1134 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
1135 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
1136 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
1137 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
1138 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
1139 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
1140 Cleanup the bootp printer
1141 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
1142 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
1143 the options output a bit.
1144 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
1145 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
1146 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
1147 Fixes for 64bit compiling
1148 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
1149 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
1150 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
1151 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
1152 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
1155 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
1156 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
1157 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
1159 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
1161 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
1162 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
1163 object printer to latest spec.
1164 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
1166 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
1167 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
1168 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
1169 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
1170 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
1171 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
1174 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
1176 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
1177 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
1178 including improved 64bit support
1180 Support for sending packets
1181 Many compilation fixes on most platforms
1182 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
1183 Improved Unicode support
1185 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
1187 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
1188 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
1189 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
1191 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
1193 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
1195 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
1201 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
1204 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
1207 Radio - via radiotap
1211 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
1213 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
1216 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
1218 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
1219 https://web.archive.org/web/20160328035955/https://www.rapid7.com/resources/advisories/R7-0017.jsp
1220 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
1221 some MINGW32 changes.
1222 updates for autoconf 2.5
1223 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
1224 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
1225 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
1226 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
1227 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
1228 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
1229 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
1230 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
1231 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
1232 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
1233 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
1235 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
1237 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
1238 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
1240 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
1241 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
1242 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
1243 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
1244 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
1245 PPPoE payload length headers.
1246 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
1247 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
1248 BGP output split into multiple lines.
1249 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
1250 Fixes to PIM decoder.
1251 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
1252 unaligned access work.
1253 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
1254 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
1255 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
1256 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
1257 New -A flag -print ascii only
1258 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
1259 more verbosity for tftp decoder
1262 cross compilation patches
1263 RFC 3561 AODV support.
1264 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
1265 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
1266 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
1267 fixes for DECnet support.
1268 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
1269 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
1271 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
1273 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid isakmp packets.
1274 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
1275 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid BGP packets.
1276 Fixed buffer overflow with certain invalid NFS packets.
1277 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
1278 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
1279 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
1280 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
1281 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
1282 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
1283 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
1285 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
1286 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
1287 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
1288 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
1289 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
1291 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
1292 keyword "ipx" added.
1293 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
1294 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
1295 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
1296 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
1297 improvements to SNAP demux.
1298 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
1299 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
1300 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
1301 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
1302 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
1303 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
1304 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
1305 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
1306 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
1307 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
1308 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
1309 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
1310 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
1311 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
1312 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
1313 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
1314 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
1315 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
1316 Better Linux libc5 compat.
1317 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
1318 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
1319 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
1320 New time stamp formats documented.
1321 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
1322 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
1323 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
1324 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
1325 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
1326 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
1327 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
1328 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
1329 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
1330 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
1331 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
1332 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
1333 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
1334 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
1335 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
1336 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
1337 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
1338 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
1339 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
1340 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
1341 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
1342 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
1343 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
1344 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
1346 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
1348 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
1349 Cleaned up documentation.
1350 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
1351 IPsec changes/cleanups.
1352 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
1354 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
1355 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
1357 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
1358 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
1359 depending upon system dependent mappings of DLT_* types.
1361 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
1363 Updated autoconf stock files.
1365 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
1367 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
1368 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
1370 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
1372 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
1375 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
1376 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
1377 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
1379 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
1380 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
1381 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
1384 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
1386 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
1387 - switch to config.h for autoconf
1388 - unify RCSID strings
1389 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
1390 - Really fix the RIP printer
1391 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
1392 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
1393 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
1394 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
1395 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
1398 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
1399 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
1400 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
1401 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
1402 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
1403 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
1404 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
1406 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
1407 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
1408 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
1410 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
1412 - permit building in different directories.
1414 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
1416 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
1419 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
1422 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
1423 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
1424 change date format to the right one.
1426 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
1427 - Created tcpdump.org repository
1429 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
1431 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
1433 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
1434 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1436 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
1437 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
1439 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
1441 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
1443 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
1446 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
1448 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
1449 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
1452 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
1453 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
1455 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
1458 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
1459 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
1461 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
1464 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
1465 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
1467 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
1468 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
1469 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1471 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
1472 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
1474 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
1477 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
1479 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
1480 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
1482 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
1483 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
1485 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
1488 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
1489 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
1491 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
1493 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
1495 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
1497 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
1498 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
1500 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
1502 - Added Linux support.
1504 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
1507 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
1509 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
1511 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
1512 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
1514 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
1516 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
1519 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
1520 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
1522 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
1523 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
1524 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1526 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
1528 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
1529 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
1531 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
1533 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
1534 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
1535 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
1536 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
1537 first block N times).
1539 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
1540 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
1542 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
1544 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1547 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
1548 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1550 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
1553 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
1554 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
1556 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1558 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
1559 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
1561 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
1562 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1564 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
1565 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
1567 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
1568 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1570 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
1572 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
1573 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
1575 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
1577 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
1578 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1580 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
1581 (steve@research.oknet.com)
1583 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
1584 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1586 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
1588 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
1589 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
1591 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
1592 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1594 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1595 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
1597 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
1599 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
1601 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
1603 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
1604 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
1606 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
1609 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
1611 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
1612 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
1614 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
1616 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1617 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
1620 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1622 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
1623 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
1624 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
1627 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
1629 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
1632 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
1635 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
1637 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
1638 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
1640 - Port to GNU autoconf.
1642 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
1643 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
1645 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
1646 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
1648 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
1650 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
1651 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
1653 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
1655 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
1657 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
1658 (cslater@imatek.com).
1660 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
1662 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
1663 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
1665 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
1666 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
1668 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
1670 - Add support for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1672 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
1673 wrong on little endian machines).
1675 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
1678 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
1679 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
1681 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
1682 selective acknowledgment case.
1684 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
1687 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
1688 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
1691 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
1692 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1694 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
1695 Honig (jhc@bsdi.com)
1698 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
1700 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
1703 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
1704 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
1705 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
1707 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
1708 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1709 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
1711 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
1713 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1715 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
1717 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
1718 "released" one in late 1995.
1720 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
1722 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
1724 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
1725 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
1726 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1728 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
1729 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1731 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
1732 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
1734 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
1735 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
1737 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
1739 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
1741 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
1743 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
1745 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
1747 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
1748 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1750 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
1751 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
1752 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
1753 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
1754 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
1755 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
1756 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
1758 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
1761 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
1762 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
1763 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
1765 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
1768 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
1769 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
1771 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
1772 packaged separately).
1774 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
1776 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
1779 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
1780 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
1782 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
1785 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
1786 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
1788 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
1789 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
1790 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
1791 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
1792 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
1793 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
1794 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
1795 with "not ip proto 4".)
1797 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
1798 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1800 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1802 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
1803 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
1804 Add && and || operators
1806 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
1808 - Fix bug with -c flag.
1810 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
1812 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
1815 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
1816 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
1818 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
1820 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
1821 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
1822 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
1824 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
1825 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
1826 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
1828 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
1829 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
1831 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
1833 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
1835 - Internal release (never publicly exported).
1837 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
1839 - Various byte ordering fixes.
1841 - Add truncation checks.
1843 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
1845 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
1847 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
1849 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
1852 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
1853 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
1855 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
1857 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
1859 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
1861 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
1862 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
1864 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
1866 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
1868 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
1870 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
1872 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
1873 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
1875 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
1876 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
1877 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
1878 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
1880 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
1881 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
1882 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
1883 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
1885 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
1886 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
1887 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
1889 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
1892 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
1894 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
1895 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. tcpdump has been tested under
1896 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
1897 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
1899 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
1901 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
1903 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
1905 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
1906 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
1908 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
1909 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
1911 - IP options are now printed.
1913 - RIP packets are now printed.
1915 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
1916 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
1917 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
1918 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
1920 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
1921 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
1924 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
1925 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
1926 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
1927 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
1930 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
1931 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
1932 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
1933 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
1934 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
1935 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
1936 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
1937 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
1939 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
1941 - Initial public release.