CIRCLE WITH A DOT

There was a time in my career where my days were spent with Wireshark and a development IDE side-by-side as I worked on packet-level code.Today, I had to install and use Wireshark for the first time in over a decade. I've forgotten so much, but a couple of minutes is all it took for me to have both capture & display filters working enough to see what I needed to find. #wireshark

@poetaster with ssl decryption and showing the most interesting captures as nice output when you stop capturing packets . dNS plaintext credentials from mail, telnet etc.

Critical Wireshark Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code Via Malformed Packetshttps://cybersecuritynews.com/wireshark-vulnerabilities-code-execution/amp/#wireshark

️ CVE-2026-5402: HIGH severity heap buffer overflow in Wireshark 4.6.0 – 4.6.4 TLS dissector. Exploitation can lead to DoS or code execution. No patch yet — avoid untrusted TLS traffic. https://radar.offseq.com/threat/cve-2026-5402-cwe-122-heap-based-buffer-overflow-i-bdf27e3b #OffSeq #Wireshark #CVE20265402 #BlueTeam

#Wireshark 4.6.5 Open-Source Network Protocol Analyzer Is Out to Fix Multiple Vulnerabilities and Update Protocol Support https://9to5linux.com/wireshark-4-6-5-fixes-multiple-vulnerabilities-and-updates-protocol-support#OpenSource #Linux #networking