Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] tethereal crash. bt included.

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:20:56 -0800
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:15:10AM -0800, Jaime Fournier wrote:
> I am seeing tethereal die hourly when it seems to hit
> certain packets.
> Below is a full backtrace from one of the cores.
> If you need more information, please let me know.

We might need a capture that causes this, as it appears to be the result
of some piece of code (probably a dissector) overwriting allocated
memory - i.e., the crash is probably not in the code with the bug, it's
in some code that hit the trap left by the code with the bug.