Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] seg fault - gtkclist ?

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From: David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:37:42 -0500
Or, just link with e-fence :)

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:33:51PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > #0  chunk_alloc (ar_ptr=0x40528f00, nb=16) at malloc.c:2904
> > #1  0x4047f13a in __libc_malloc (bytes=5) at malloc.c:2714
> 
> This can be result of malloc arena damage, which can be caused by
> something scribbling past the end of a mallocated chunk of data.
> 
> You might want to see if you can create a minimal capture necessary to
> provoke the crash, and then audit the memory allocations done when
> reading the capture in.
> 
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