Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: possible crashes in packet-asn1.c and packet-ieee80211.c:

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:22:35 +0200
ronnie sahlberg wrote:

Nice work.
:-)

I think requiring 1.2.3 is fine,   those
such as myself with older versions are very few and can live with suboptimal
stability/broken g_snprintf()


If you run grep sprintf | sed -e "s/:.*$//" | sort | uniq
in epan and epan/dissectors
you get a lot of hits.
Yes, that's the next step.

Can you update the wiki and add a section that all these files need to
be audited and fixed up?
I've added:

http://wiki.ethereal.com/Development/InsecureCalls

I've also placed a note, that we might use static code analysis tools like flawfinder to find other similar problems.

Regards, ULFL