Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] segmentation fault

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From: David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:00:29 -0600
Sounds like a problem in frame 213339.  What type of packet is that frame?

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:35:35AM +0100, Johannes Faerber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have seen a segmentation fault occuring with tethereal 0.8.15
> when it reads a capture file and pipes output somewhere (/dev/null).
> The capture file holds mixed IP traffic (snaplen 600) and I used
> option -V. It crashes at a certain packet (ICQ message is SRV_DELIVERED_MESS
> or something). Weird: using editcap to make the trace smaller, I
> recognized that the crash depends on some previous packets:
> frames ranging from 211000 to 220000: segm. fault at frame 213339
>                from 212000 to 220000: no fault!
>                from 213000 to 220000: segm. fault at frame 213339
> tethereal 0.8.11 does not crash here.
> 
> I can not decribe that behaviour much better since I only have restricted
> access to the trace :o(
> 
> Is this a known problem?
> 
> Regards,
> Johannes
> 
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