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

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From: Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:53:10 -0500
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > By audit, do you mean a memory profiler, or glib's g_memory_profile
> > or something else ?
> 
> I meant manual auditing, although David Frascone's suggestion of
> Electric Fence:
> 
>         http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/
> 
> would probably also help.  (Bruce's FTP server appears to be Really Slow
> right now, so it may be hard to download; however, RH 7.1 might come
> with Electric Fence, and I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't available
> from elsewhere.)
> 


Yes it does (I just found it :-))

> BTW, if I run a reasonably recent Tethereal on your capture, it crashes:
> 
> (gdb) where
> #0  0xef525460 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #1  0x573f4 in giop_hash_module_hash (v=0xefffe6dc) at packet-giop.c:1008
> #2  0xef760f74 in g_hash_table_lookup (hash_table=0x258268, key=0xefffe6dc)
>     at ghash.c:114
> #3  0x57b64 in try_explicit_giop_dissector (tvb=0x2a2fbc, pinfo=0x257b28,
>     tree=0x0, offset=0xefffe76c, header=0xefffe7e8,
>     operation=0x279f90 "_get_height", repoid=0x28efd8 "StandardImplName/")
>     at packet-giop.c:1791
> #4  0x59870 in dissect_giop_request_1_1 (tvb=0x2a2fbc, pinfo=0x257b28,
>     tree=0x0, clnp_tree=0x0, header=0xefffe7e8, stream_is_big_endian=1)
>     at packet-giop.c:3416
> #5  0x5a464 in dissect_giop (tvb=0x2a2f54, pinfo=0x257b28, tree=0x0)
>     at packet-giop.c:3916
> 
>         ...
> 
> The offending line in "giop_hash_module_hash()" is
> 
> (gdb) frame 1
> #1  0x573f4 in giop_hash_module_hash (v=0xefffe6dc) at packet-giop.c:1008
> 1008      len = strlen(key->module);
> 
> and "key->module" is null:
> 
> (gdb) print v
> $4 = 0xefffe6dc
> (gdb) print *(struct giop_module_key *)v
> $5 = {module = 0x0}


Thanks,  how come I didn't see this ? Must have been lunch :-)

/frank..

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