Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5753] New dissector for the openSAFETY protocol
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:25:07 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5753

--- Comment #9 from Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-03-23 19:25:03 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #8)
>  - fuzz testing this dissector is not necessary. The standard for openSAFETY is
> pretty strict what you can send (even down to the small bytes in the payload).

fuzz testing's aim is to make sure that Wireshark never, ever crashes,
regardless of what the (possibly malicious) packets look like.  (Remember that
many users run Wireshark as root/administrator.)  To that end, fuzz testing is
_always_ necessary.

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