Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal segfault

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:08:25 -0600
If one of the other developers hasn't asked you already, can you send
the capture to me, or to security@xxxxxxxxxxxx?

Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> I have a capture that causes a segmentation fault in ethereal.  It
> displays fine with TCP dump.  I have tried  Ethereal 0.10.5, 0.10.6 and
> 0.10.8, with identical results.  We had a hard time capturing the trace
> because ethereal will segfault when using the display live function, and
> it segfaulted after a little while of capturing to a file.
> 
> I do have a core file, and can create more easily.  I'm loading ethereal
> from RPM so I don't have any debugging symbols loaded.
> 
> We've been running ethereal on our network for a while, so this was
> surprising to me.  We are capturing attached to a monitor port on a
> Cisco 6500 running IOS.  The traffic is mainly DNP-3 (used to read and
> manage RTU's and meters by the electrical industry).
> 
> The current capture is 235K, so I didn't think it would be appropriate
> to blast that to a large distribution list.  I will happily:
> 1.  Provide the capture and/or core file to interested parties
> 2.  compile an image with debugging flags whilst recreating the problem
> 3.  assist in whatever other way is desired by the development team.
> 
>