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Wireshark is really useful, but it's also had security problems (I think I'm not being unfair here) continuously over its entire existence. I started using it over 10 years ago back when it was called Ethereal, and I feel like I've seen probably hundreds of Ethereal/Wireshark security advisories in that time.


Not all of them were just in wireshark. Sometimes the root of the issue was in libpcap which is common code between wireshark and tcpdump.




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