Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Err when using a pipe

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/04/2012 05:28 PM, vijay wrote:
> This is from dumpcap. Here is the complete stack. It occurring *while
> writing the IDB*
>
> #0  0x00ac7433 in pcap_stats () from /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.8
> #1  0x080513de in libpcap_write_interface_statistics_block
> (fp=0x805af70, interface_id=0, pd=0x0, bytes_written=0x80572fc,
> err=0xbfffd2a8) at pcapio.c:472
> #2  0x080501c8 in capture_loop_close_output (stats_known=<value
> optimized out>, stats=<value optimized out>, capture_opts=<value
> optimized out>) at dumpcap.c:2467
> #3  capture_loop_start (stats_known=<value optimized out>, stats=<value
> optimized out>, capture_opts=<value optimized out>) at dumpcap.c:3127
> #4  0x08051224 in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value
> optimized out>) at dumpcap.c:3916
>
> And one more important stuff i could figure out is that this
> segmentation fault occurs only when *wireshark is capturing in PCAPNG
> forma*t.
> I c*hanged the capture format to LIBPCAP and it worked fine*.

See:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5939

It's scheduled to be fixed in 1.6.6.