Guy:
I just compilied last night's build (ethereal-2001-06-12) on a windows NT.
The fixes you have done has corrected the FT_STRING problem. I now have a
working version of ethereal v0.8.18 plus current code to date.
Thanks...
Guy Harris wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:57:57PM -0400, Ronald W. Henderson wrote:
> > I have encountered what I believe to be a NIS or NIS+ decode bug with
> > ethereal v0.8.18:
>
> There were a number of places (not only in those dissectors) where an
> FT_STRING field was used for an opaque array of bytes; doing so will
> cause that crash (as a consequence of another fix, on 0.8.18, to keep
> Ethereal from crashing if an FT_BYTES field was used for an opaque array
> of bytes).
>
> I have checked in fixes for those; they will show up in the next
> release. We should consider putting out a new release to pick up those
> fixes.
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