Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] [danieljo@xxxxxxxxxxxx: Bug#280556: ethereal: Allocates memory in

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From: Frederic Peters <fpeters@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:56:48 +0100
As reported to the Debian bug tracking system,

Regards,

        Frederic
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From: Daniel Anderberg <danieljo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:46:34 +0100
Package: ethereal
Version: 0.10.7-1
Severity: important

Ethereal (and tethereal) will allocate huge amounts of memory (until killed 
by the OOM killer) when decoding the TCP packet in the attached capture file.
The problem seems to be in the OPSI packet disector. Disabling OPSI prevents
ethereal from going berserk.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22
Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE

Versions of packages ethereal depends on:
ii  ethereal-common             0.10.7-1     Network traffic analyser (common f
ii  libadns1                    1.0-8.2      Asynchronous-capable DNS client li
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.6.1-5      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.4.7-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.4.10-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.4.1-4      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpcap0.7                  0.7.2-7      System interface for user-level pa
ii  libpcre3                    4.5-1.1      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-1    compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information

Attachment: evil_packet
Description: Binary data


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