Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Double-free tvb bug in HTTP dissector with gzip decompression

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From: Jerry Talkington <jtalkington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:31:59 -0700
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:51:36PM +0200, Olivier Biot wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> If you open the attached capture with Ethereal, you can freely inspect
> it and see the dissected decompression. However, if you enter a
> display filter like "http" which matches the packet, Ethereal will
> crash in epan_dissect_free() at the very end of having filtered all
> packets (I tested this with a 9 MB capture). The crash does not happen
> if you disable the HTTP dissector.
 
Hmm, I wasn't able to get a crash on my Mac, but I was on my Linux box.
However, I didn't like the gtk2 interface, so I made distclean, reran
autogen.sh, configured and ran make, and the crash doesn't happen
anymore.

I reran autogen.sh, configured with gtk2 again, and the crash still
doesn't appear.  Try rerunning autogen.sh.  In the meantime, I'll try
setting up a build environment on a Windows machine.

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