Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in package wireshark

Maintainers for wireshark are Balint Reczey <[email protected]>.

You may want to refer to the following packages that are part of the same source: libwireshark-data, libwireshark-dev, libwireshark11, libwireshark14, libwireshark16, libwireshark18, libwiretap-dev, libwiretap11, libwiretap13, libwiretap15, libwiretap8, libwscodecs2, libwsutil-dev, libwsutil12, libwsutil14, libwsutil16, libwsutil9, tshark, wireshark-common, wireshark-dev, wireshark-doc, wireshark-gtk, wireshark-qt.

You might like to refer to the wireshark package page, to the Package Tracking System, or to the source package src:wireshark's bug page.

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Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Unclassified (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; More information needed (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (6 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; More information needed (4 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Confirmed (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (5 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; More information needed (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Confirmed (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; More information needed (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Will Not Fix (4 bugs)
Forwarded bugs -- Normal bugs (3 bugs)
Forwarded bugs -- Minor bugs (2 bugs)
Forwarded bugs -- Wishlist items (1 bug)
Resolved bugs -- Serious (policy violations or makes package unfit for release) (1 bug)
Resolved bugs -- Wishlist items (1 bug)

Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Unclassified (1 bug)

#875961 [i| | ] [wireshark] wireshark: Capture is disabled and filter selection dropdown is red
Reported by: Steinar Bang <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 15:09:03 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version wireshark/2.2.6+g32dac6a-2; Filed 7 years and 240 days ago; Modified 7 years and 240 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; More information needed (1 bug)

#762067 [i|MR|☣] [src:gdk-pixbuf] wireshark crashes immediately
Reported by: Giorgos Pallas <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:33:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible; Found in version gdk-pixbuf/2.30.8-1; Filed 10 years and 240 days ago; Modified 4 years and 159 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (6 bugs)

#512989 [n| |☣] [libportaudio2] wireshark: Error "Can not Open Stream in PortAudio Library" when trying to listen voip rtp dump
Reported by: Alexander Zakharyash <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version portaudio19/19+svn20071022-3; Filed 16 years and 111 days ago; Modified 15 years and 147 days ago;
#897984 [n| | ] [wireshark] [wireshark] Wrong interface captured on Restart
Reported by: Kevin Steen <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 13:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version wireshark/2.2.6+g32dac6a-2+deb9u2; Filed 7 years and 10 days ago; Modified 7 years and 10 days ago;
#901640 [n| | ] [wireshark] wireshark: Fails to support correctly SSH authentication methods
Reported by: Genomian <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version wireshark/2.2.6+g32dac6a-2+deb9u3; Filed 6 years and 333 days ago; Modified 6 years and 333 days ago;
#949473 [n| | ] [wireshark] wireshark: IO Graph loses meaning of time axis
Reported by: Philipp Marek <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:00:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version wireshark/3.2.1-1; Filed 5 years and 114 days ago; Modified 249 days ago;
#951259 [n| | ] [wireshark] wireshark: "File/Open" dialog display corruption in "Start/elapsed"
Reported by: Philipp Marek <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:24:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version wireshark/3.2.1-1; Filed 5 years and 91 days ago; Modified 5 years and 91 days ago;
#986731 [n| | ] [wireshark] wireshark: packet bytes frame doesn't show all ASCII bytes
Reported by: Paul Slootman <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:09:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version wireshark/3.4.4-1; Filed 4 years and 33 days ago; Modified 4 years and 33 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; More information needed (4 bugs)

#670162 [n|M| ] [wireshark] wireshark: invalid free when clicking 'how to capture' link
Reported by: Nigel Horne <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:27:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version wireshark/1.6.7-1; Filed 13 years and 22 days ago; Modified 13 years and 18 days ago;
#960280 [n|M| ] [wireshark] wireshark: segfault during column manipulation
Reported by: Ferenc Wágner <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 13:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version wireshark/2.6.8-1.1; Filed 5 years and 3 days ago; Modified 5 years and 3 days ago;
#986769 [n|MR| ] [wireshark] wireshark: Dropdown menus invisible in Sway
Reported by: Pelle <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible; Found in version wireshark/3.4.4-1; Filed 4 years and 32 days ago; Modified 4 years and 1 day ago;
#1016033 [n|MR| ] [wireshark] wireshark: process does not quit
Reported by: Erwan David <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible; Found in version wireshark/3.6.6-1; Filed 2 years and 292 days ago; Modified 2 years and 289 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)

#544482 [n|☹| ] [wireshark] wireshark (as root) desktop file
Reported by: Luca Bruno <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: wontfix; Found in version wireshark/1.2.1-2; Filed 15 years and 258 days ago; Modified 10 years and 264 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Confirmed (1 bug)

#858985 [m|u| ] [wireshark] wireshark: Does not read global configs from /etc
Reported by: Alexander GQ Gerasiov <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:27:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in version wireshark/2.2.5+g440fd4d-2; Filed 8 years and 47 days ago; Modified 1 year and 303 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (5 bugs)

#765699 [m| | ] [wireshark] wireshark: Deterministically crashes after double click on About → Folders → Personal Folder
Reported by: Axel Beckert <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:45:07 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version wireshark/1.12.1+g01b65bf-1; Filed 10 years and 211 days ago; Modified 10 years and 211 days ago;
#813397 [m|u| ] [wireshark] wireshark: When opening online material, the error 'Could not execute web browser: "%s"' appears.
Reported by: wjonker <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:18:53 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: upstream; Found in version wireshark/1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u3; Filed 9 years and 103 days ago; Modified 9 years and 103 days ago;
#845457 [m| | ] [wireshark] wireshark: Automatically scroll packet details option lost after restart
Reported by: js <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:24:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version wireshark/2.2.2+g9c5aae3-1; Filed 8 years and 172 days ago; Modified 8 years and 172 days ago;
#951260 [m| | ] [wireshark] wireshark: "File/Open" dialog doesn't stay in directory
Reported by: Philipp Marek <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:45:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version wireshark/3.2.1-1; Filed 5 years and 91 days ago; Modified 5 years and 91 days ago;
#952423 [m| | ] [wireshark] wireshark: Changing the layout removes the file name from the window title
Reported by: Philipp Marek <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 07:48:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version wireshark/3.2.1-1; Filed 5 years and 80 days ago; Modified 5 years and 80 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; More information needed (2 bugs)

#932214 [m|Mu| ] [wireshark] wireshark: TCP statistics bad (duration, export)
Reported by: Philipp Marek <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 17:15:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: moreinfo, upstream; Found in version wireshark/2.6.9-1; Filed 5 years and 302 days ago; Modified 5 years and 292 days ago;
#1031646 [m|M| ] [wireshark] wireshark: Confusing/conflicting advice for novice users during installation
Reported by: NeatNit <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:48:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version wireshark/3.6.2-2; Filed 2 years and 83 days ago; Modified 2 years and 48 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)

#591584 [m|u☹| ] [wireshark] wireshark: Wireshark is of no use on servers
Reported by: Nigel Horne <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 02:45:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: upstream, wontfix; Found in version wireshark/1.2.10-1; Filed 14 years and 286 days ago; Modified 14 years and 286 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (1 bug)

#964985 [w|+|☣] [libpcap0.8] libpcap0.8: build with rpcap support (--enable-remote)
Reported by: Lukas Tribus <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version libpcap/1.9.1-4; Filed 4 years and 304 days ago; Modified 144 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Confirmed (1 bug)

#848243 [w| | ] [wireshark] wireshark: Please add CPE info in d/upstream/metadata
Reported by: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:27:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: confirmed; Found in version wireshark/2.2.2+g9c5aae3-1; Filed 8 years and 150 days ago; Modified 8 years and 70 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (2 bugs)

#1089793 [w| |☣] [libqt6gui6] libqt6gui6: Please depend on qt6-qpa-plugins
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version qt6-base/6.7.2+dfsg-5; Filed 151 days ago; Modified 151 days ago;
#1092296 [w| | ] [wireshark] [INTL:es] Spanish translation of the debconf template wireshark
Reported by: jathan <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 01:45:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 126 days ago; Modified 126 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; More information needed (2 bugs)

#577723 [w|M| ] [wireshark] wireshark: understand OpenBSD's pcap files
Reported by: Toni Mueller <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:15:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version wireshark/1.0.2-3+lenny8; Filed 15 years and 33 days ago; Modified 11 years and 128 days ago;
#617344 [w|M| ] [wireshark] wireshark: "follow TCP stream" doesn't indicate truncated data
Reported by: "Ph. Marek" <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:51:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version wireshark/1.4.4-1; Filed 14 years and 70 days ago; Modified 13 years and 311 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Will Not Fix (4 bugs)

#409144 [w|u☹| ] [wireshark] wireshark: manpage lacks an EXAMPLES section to demonstrate typical use cases
Reported by: Jari Aalto <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: upstream, wontfix; Found in version wireshark/0.99.4-4; Filed 18 years and 107 days ago; Modified 15 years and 255 days ago;
#599460 [w|☹| ] [wireshark] wireshark: Add an option to show packet bytes as plain text
Reported by: Nahuel Greco <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:24:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version wireshark/1.2.10-2+squeeze1; Filed 14 years and 221 days ago; Modified 14 years and 219 days ago;
#737355 [w|u☹| ] [wireshark] wireshark: decryption of ISAKMP packets in combination with XAuth
Reported by: Alexander Prinsier <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 23:42:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: upstream, wontfix; Found in version wireshark/1.10.5-2; Filed 11 years and 103 days ago; Modified 11 years and 102 days ago;
#746336 [w|u☹| ] [wireshark] wireshark: Manual page of wireshark contains around 800 lines of contributors.
Reported by: Martin Furter <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 06:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: upstream, wontfix; Found in version wireshark/1.10.6-1; Filed 11 years and 17 days ago; Modified 11 years and 13 days ago;

Forwarded bugs -- Normal bugs (3 bugs)

#560325 [n| |↝☣] [libsmi2ldbl] libsmi2ldbl: crashes wireshar when MIB-s are missing
Reported by: Meelis Roos <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:24:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version libsmi/0.4.8+dfsg2-2; Forwarded to http://mail.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/pipermail/libsmi/2009-December/001174.html; Filed 15 years and 158 days ago; Modified 207 days ago;
#763034 [n|u☹|↝☣] [libgtk-3-0] libgtk-3-0: Regression in GTK+ 3.12 in handling CSS-defined selected_bg_color
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:54:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed, jessie, upstream, wontfix; Found in versions gtk+3.0/3.14.4-1, gtk+3.0/3.14.1-1, gtk+3.0/3.12.2-3, gtk+3.0/3.14.5-1; Forwarded to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738841; Filed 10 years and 231 days ago; Modified 9 years and 124 days ago;
#880601 [n| |=↝☣] [gdm3] gdm fails to give wayland an Xauthority file, preventing running applications as root
Reported by: Phil Susi <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 18:06:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 883971; Found in version gdm3/3.26.1-3; Forwarded to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/342; Filed 7 years and 193 days ago; Modified 3 years and 356 days ago;

Forwarded bugs -- Minor bugs (2 bugs)

#410812 [m|Uu☹|↝] [wireshark] wireshark: samba unicode filenames displayed as ASCII
Reported by: Jean-Michel <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:48:09 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: fixed-upstream, upstream, wontfix; Found in version wireshark/0.99.4-4; Forwarded to http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1372; Filed 18 years and 93 days ago; Modified 5 years and 261 days ago;
#838479 [m|u|↝] [wireshark] wireshark: tcp flow: dancing horizontally when scrolling vertically
Reported by: "Ph. Marek" <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:51:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in version wireshark/2.2.0+g5368c50-1; Forwarded to https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12931; Filed 8 years and 236 days ago; Modified 8 years and 236 days ago;

Forwarded bugs -- Wishlist items (1 bug)

#581965 [w|U|↝] [wireshark] wireshark: unable to overwrite file even with ignoring selected packets
Reported by: Nico Golde <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 12:15:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: fixed-upstream; Found in version wireshark/1.2.8-1; Forwarded to https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2080; Filed 15 years ago; Modified 10 years and 291 days ago;

Resolved bugs -- Serious (policy violations or makes package unfit for release) (1 bug)

#1102441 [S| |☺] [wireshark] wireshark: build changes when rebuilt in trixie-security
Reported by: Helmut Grohne <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 06:57:02 UTC; Severity: serious; Found in version wireshark/4.4.5-1; Fixed in version wireshark/4.4.6-1; Done: Balint Reczey <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 3 days; Filed 34 days ago; Modified 26 days ago;

Resolved bugs -- Wishlist items (1 bug)

#1100069 [w|🌐+|☺] [wireshark] wireshark: [INTL:pt] updated Portuguese debconf translation
Reported by: Pedro Ribeiro <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:24:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: l10n, patch; Found in version wireshark/4.4.5-1; Fixed in version wireshark/4.4.6-1; Done: Balint Reczey <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 3 days; Filed 63 days ago; Modified 26 days ago;

Summary

Status
- 32 Outstanding
- 6 Forwarded
- 2 Resolved
Severity
- 1 Serious (policy violations or makes package unfit for release)
- 2 Important bugs
- 14 Normal bugs
- 11 Minor bugs
- 12 Wishlist items
Classification
- 1 Patch Available
- 2 Confirmed
- 14 Unclassified
- 9 More information needed
- 6 Will Not Fix

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