Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal crash when set display filter

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From: Ming Zhang <mingz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:14:11 -0500
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:37 +0000, didier wrote:
> Hi
> Ming Zhang wrote:
> > Hi Ulf
> > 
> > Managed to cut the size. I found that this trace will not crash
> > the .10.12 from ubuntu linux, but will on svn code. 
> It's a bug in 10.12 or 10.14 iscsi dissector with at least 2 bugs in 
> ethereal. :)
> Look at frame 29 with 10.14 the desegmentation is weird.

only have .10.12 here, can not see anything special. i am not good at
tcp/ip. :P


> 
> Now in ethereal
> in proto.c, proto_tree_add_protocol_format doesn't set the tvb if start 
> != 0, ie it's not a new tvb_subset, so far so good but then:
> - in fvalue-tvbuff.c functions don't check for a null tvb.
> - why it doesn't do the same if proto_add_item is used rather than 
> proto_tree_add_protocol_format?
> 
> Didier
> 
> > 
> > bugzilla need login, i donot have that account.
> Create one.

o, ok. one more account info need to remember. 

> 
> Didier
>