Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6805] 802.11 packet capture infinite loop
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:31:41 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6805

--- Comment #5 from Laurent Butti <laurentb@xxxxxxxxx> 2012-02-17 12:31:41 PST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> The FCS on the frame is bad, so this was probably received corrupted and not
> discarded because the adapter was running in monitor mode.
> 
> I.e., the frame probably really *is* bad; we just need to handle that better,
> by making sure, when dissecting an IE, that we don't go past the end of the IE.

Sure, this frame is malformed and I confirm that this frame was generated by
fuzzing an originally valid frame.

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