Ethereal-users: [ethereal-users] Re: [ethereal-dev] Bug in ethereal-0.7.6 + patch

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From: Joe Clarke <jclarke@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:50:38 -0400 (EDT)
I'm also running into an assert in proto.c at line 212 with
find_hfinfo_record, and I'm trying ot track it down.  Without a core file,
it gets tough.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

Joe Clarke

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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Guy Harris wrote:

> > I found a null pointer bug in ethereal-0.7.6.  It seems you call
> > val_to_str with a fmt pointing to NULL.  I patched this to be a dummy
> > value (i.e. "foo") to avoid the seg fault.  I found this on FreeBSD
> > 3.3-RELEASE.
> 
> We'd found this one after 0.7.6 went out the door; we checked in a fix
> that replaces the "val_to_str()" call with a call to "match_strval()"
> (which is what "val_to_str()" uses to do the value lookup), and the next
> release should have the fix.
> 
>