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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