Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1015] buffer overflow in nettl.c due renaming ethereal
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:23:51 +0000 (GMT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1015





------- Comment #3 from guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx  2006-07-27 01:23 GMT -------
The fix isn't correct - the structure in question represents a structure that
appears in HP-UX nettl files, so we don't get to change it.

The correct fix is not to stuff a 9-character string into a field that supports
8 characters plus the terminating '\0'; I've checked that change in.  (The
field is a host name; I've no idea what HP-UX does if the host name is longer
than 8 characters, or even if it allows unqualified host names > 8 characters. 
I've also no idea what would happen if we left that field empty.)


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