Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.99.0 epan/strutil.c - utf_8to16 bug

[<jdhagen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald,

Build 18017 has the utf_8to16 problem fixed.

Thanks.


Joe
> 
> From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2006/04/27 Thu PM 03:00:41 GMT
> To: Ethereal development <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.99.0 epan/strutil.c - utf_8to16 bug
> 
> jdhagen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Ulf,
> > 
> > The string passed to the function is:
> > 
> > "C:\Program Files\Ethereal\dumpcap" -i \Device\NPF_{66E7710E-054E-408F-91A2-29B8AD1BDEDB} -Z -B 1 -f "ether host 00:14:22:CD:FD:42"
> > 
> > The string length exceeds INITIAL_FMTBUF_SIZE, so the
> > g_realloc logic triggers.  However, the buffer is half
> > the size it should be because it doesn't account for
> > the size of wchar_t, resulting in the access violation.
> > 
> > Ironically, the call to g_malloc before this is correct:
> > 
> >    utf16buf[idx] = g_malloc(utf16buf_len[idx] * sizeof(wchar_t));
> > 
> > So the failure only occurs if the length of utf8str
> > exceeds INITIAL_FMTBUF_SIZE.
> 
> Can you try build 18017 or later from
> http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/buildbot-builds/win32/ and see if
> the problem is fixed?
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