Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] segfault

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:26:46 -0700 (PDT)
> I have an 802.11 capture that makes 'tethereal -nV -r capture' segfault.
> I can't seem to debug it, since even when I built it with -g, I can't get
> a backtrace in GDB.

The bug was in the 802.11 dissector, and it caused stack overflows; if
the stack has been trashed by overflowing a buffer on the stack, there's
a very good chance that you won't be able to get a backtrace.

I've checked in a fix.