Netzob

Folks,

We are pleased to announce a new release of Netzob: 0.3.2.

There isn't much changes since the release candidate version, 0.3.2-rc1. Notably, this version fixes a crash in libNeedleman which occurred in some cases.

Thanks to Alexandre Pigné, this version is also the first to be officially available as a Gentoo package! All the Gentoo supporters will now be able to install Netzob in a simple manner. This package has been supplied to be integrated in the official Gentoo distribution (see bug #408013 on Gentoo).

As usual, this new release is available as a source package and as a Debian package (for Debian Squeeze and Debian unstable).

We thanks all Netzob contributors:¶

• Alexandre Pigné
• Frédéric Guihéry
• Georges Bossert
• Goulven Guiheux
• Maxime Olivier
• Olivier Tétard
• Franck Roland

Changes since 0.3.2-rc1¶

The following commits where applied on this version since 0.3.2-rc1:

• 1c4dba61ff2bfda5d334c6fe807bb84691e94481
  • Author: Georges Bossert <>
  • Change version number from 0.3.2-rc1 to 0.3.2
• c7d867a89fa24f3777183b4da0891c5c40e8a03a
  • Author: Georges Bossert <>
  • Remove generated PKG-INFO file.
• 67e99f136f1f5e67b178648ab6d4c276a80a891c
  • Author: Olivier Tétard <>
  • Add missing licence block
• 415af005aa27cd49579f0a1c0c44930448b3028c
  • Author: Frédéric Guihéry <>
  • Fix issues #81 and #97 due to inconsistance of parsing between Python and C
• ce9fdee360a8127130c1127c68505989c36e1686
  • Author: Frédéric Guihéry <>
  • Correct issue #75 related to the use of deprecated Tooltips object

Changes since 0.3.1¶

This release includes some major changes since the first and latest stable release (0.3.1). It offer a better stability and quality while providing multiple major enhancements.

Some of the highlights:

• Upgrade Vocabulary Inference:
  • Add Octal visualization of data
  • Columns are now resizable
  • Allows to copy message/field to clipboard
  • Support simple alignment
  • Show the current status of an alignment
• Upgrade Grammar Inference:
  • Dedicated GUI for the automatic inferring process
• Upgrade Simulator:
  • Specify source port for network simulator
• Upgrade Import/Export and Traces Management:
  • Activate the management of traces
  • Handle cooked socket (SLL) packet format
  • Support of human readable format export
• Extra:
  • The current workspace can be specified through a command line argument
  • Add manpage for Netzob
  • Apply pep8 quality repository on source code

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please visit the online changelog available at: https://netzob.org/index.php?page=changelog#0.3.2.

Netzob¶

Netzob is an opensource tool which supports the expert in its operations of reverse engineering, evaluation and simulation of communication protocols. Its main goals are to help security evaluators to:

• Assess the robustness of proprietary or unknown protocols implementation.
• Simulate realistic communications to test third-party products (IDS, firewalls, etc.).
• Create an open source implementation of a proprietary or unknown protocol.

Netzob supports the expert in a semi-automatic inferring process of any communication protocol. Hence, it includes the necessaries to passively learn the vocabulary of a protocol and to actively infer its grammar. The learnt protocol can afterward be simulated.

Downloads and links¶

Download page: https://netzob.org/download#NETZOB_0.3.2.

More details on the official website, https://netzob.org:

• Official website: https://netzob.org
• Download page: https://netzob.org/download
• Mailing list: https://lists.netzob.org/wws/info/user
• Developer's room: https://dev.netzob.org
• IRC: #netzob on Freenode