Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: SEGV in 10.6 on Solaris 8

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From: Bob Evans <bob.evans@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:09:53 -0500
I have been trying to reproduce it and now I can't!
Oh well.
Seemed like an awfully deep stack, BTW.
Bob.

Bob Evans wrote:

Any ideas on this crash?
Is there any way I can disable ASN.1 to see if that is the cause?
In the meantime I will manually change all the Makefile files to add the "-g" option which ./configure is NOT doing (argh!!!) and capture some more detailed information.
Thanks, Bob.

Starting program: /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/bin/ethereal "-r /tmp/bob2"
(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xfdf55594 in dissect_asn1 () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.10.6/asn1.so
(gdb) bt
#0 0xfdf55594 in dissect_asn1 () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.10.6/asn1.so #1 0xfe6670e4 in call_dissector_through_handle () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #2 0xfe667590 in call_dissector_work () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #3 0xfe667c40 in dissector_try_port () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #4 0xfeb91e9c in decode_tcp_ports () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #5 0xfeb921d4 in process_tcp_payload () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #6 0xfeb92470 in dissect_tcp_payload () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #7 0xfeb942c4 in dissect_tcp () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #8 0xfe6670e4 in call_dissector_through_handle () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #9 0xfe667590 in call_dissector_work () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #10 0xfe667c40 in dissector_try_port () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #11 0xfe956e78 in dissect_ip () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #12 0xfe6670e4 in call_dissector_through_handle () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #13 0xfe667590 in call_dissector_work () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #14 0xfe667c40 in dissector_try_port () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #15 0xfe84ee70 in ethertype () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #16 0xfe84e300 in dissect_eth_common () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #17 0xfe84e580 in dissect_eth_maybefcs () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #18 0xfe6670e4 in call_dissector_through_handle () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #19 0xfe667590 in call_dissector_work () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #20 0xfe667c40 in dissector_try_port () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #21 0xfe87e518 in dissect_frame () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #22 0xfe6670e4 in call_dissector_through_handle () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #23 0xfe667590 in call_dissector_work () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #24 0xfe6699e8 in call_dissector () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #25 0xfe666eec in dissect_packet () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0 #26 0xfe662b78 in epan_dissect_run () from /home/bevans/snifferSolaris0.10.6/lib/libethereal.so.0
#27 0x000338a8 in add_packet_to_packet_list ()
#28 0x00033ea4 in read_packet ()
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