Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6898] RTMPT OutOfMemory - Buildbot crash output: fuzz-2012
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:21:50 +0000

Comment # 31 on bug 6898 from 
(In reply to comment #30)
> We can keep lowering the default memory limit, but the real
> problem is that the dissector is allocating all the memory for reassembly
> 'up front' on the first packet, based on the length field in that packet. Is
> there any reason it can't use the reassembly.c mechanism that only allocates
> enough for each received fragment until the entire packet is ready to
> reassemble?

> Or something along the lines of Michael's suggestion wrapping
> tcp_dissect_pdus?

I tried to go down that road but gave up.  There was something about the
reassembly that didn't quite fit, like an "extra" byte or a "skipped" byte that
didn't make it very compatible with existing reassembly APIs.

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