Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Bug#169216: SIGABRT: ** ERROR **: file tvbuff.c: line 426

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From: Frederic Peters <fpeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:06:43 +0100
Reported through the Debian Bug Tracking System.

Alex de Landgraaf <alextreme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote :

> Package: ethereal
> Version: 0.9.7-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Note: this occured while sniffing for packets generated between 
> ConsoleOne and a Netware 5.1 server. Sniffing for "normal" packets does 
> work and does not generate a segfault. Error is reproducable.
> 
> After sniffing for packages, ethereal segfaults, gdb gives the 
> following:
> ** ERROR **: file tvbuff.c: line 426 (check_offset_length_no_exception): 
> assertion failed: (tvb->initialized)
> 
> bt:
> #0  0x402e9c01 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x402e9a12 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0x402eac3e in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #3  0x401b1c4e in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
> #4  0x401b1d01 in g_log () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
> #5  0x08241e19 in tvb_new_real_data ()
> #6  0x08241ebb in tvb_new_real_data ()
> #7  0x08242809 in tvb_raw_offset ()
> #8  0x08242da6 in tvb_get_letohl ()
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux omega 2.4.19 #5 SMP Mon Oct 21 20:11:25 CEST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
> 
> Versions of packages ethereal depends on:
> ii  ethereal-common               0.9.7-2    Network traffic analyser (common f
> ii  libc6                         2.3.1-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libglib1.2                    1.2.10-6   The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgtk1.2                     1.2.10-14  The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
> ii  libpcap0.7                    0.7.1-1    System interface for user-level pa
> ii  xlibs                         4.2.1-3    X Window System client libraries
> ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-6  compression library - runtime
> 
> -- no debconf information

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