Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] PROTOS traces

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:22:44 -0600 (CST)
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Gerald Combs wrote:

> Ethereal on my system crashes on packet 70974 of c06-ldapv3-enc-r1.pcap.gz
> (Red Hat 6.2, with GLib 1.2.8, with libpcap 0.4, with libz 1.1.3, without
> SNMP).

The bug appears to be somewhere around
dissect_ldap_response_search_entry(). Read_sequence() sets seq_length to
what looks like an invalid (large) value.  I'm not familiar enough with
the LDAP and ASN.1 code to narrow the problem down further.