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Project Summary
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
(Wireshark was known as Ethereal until June 09, 2006)
In a Nutshell, Wireshark...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 1,657 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in September, 1998
ending with its most recent commit about 19 hours ago
Quick Reference
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wir...
GNU General Public License v2.0 or later
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Project Security
Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )
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Poor security track-record
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Many reported vulnerabilities
Few reported vulnerabilities
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30 Day SummarySep 26 2025 — Oct 26 2025
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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for Wireshark )
Repository URL: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark.git
Version: v4.7.0rc0-661-ga5a6cb26
- 2025-10-26
- Last Analyzed
- 5,405,062
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 1.28
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 20,106
- Total defects
- 6,567
- Outstanding
- 13,349
- Fixed