[Winpcap-announce] WinPcap 4.1.3 has been released

Gianluca Varenni Gianluca.Varenni at riverbed.com
Fri Mar 8 16:27:17 PST 2013


As of today, WinPcap 4.1.3 is available in the download section of the 
WinPcap website, http://www.winpcap.org/

This release adds support for Windows 8 and Server 2012, and fixes a 
couple of security issues in the WinPcap driver that could cause an OS
crash.

Full details of the changes can be found in the change log below.

Gianluca Varenni
WinPcap Team


Changelog from WinPcap 4.1.2
============================

- Added support for Windows 8 and Server 2012

- Removed the old CACE logo

- Bugfixes:
  + Fixed a bug in the Just-In-Time compiler for BPF filters that could 
    cause an OS crash when dealing with specially crafted LD 
    instructions
  + The BPF filter validation code was not properly validating 
    division-by-zero DIV instructions.

- Known bugs:
  + Transmitted packets are looped back on Windows 8 even when using the 
    flag PCAP_OPENFLAGS_NOCAPTURE_LOCAL for pcap_open.
  + pcap_dump_fopen is not supported.


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