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

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From: Bob Evans <bob.evans@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:12:52 -0500
Thanks Guy,
Your support on this and other issues to this newbie have been invaluable.
(How do you find the time!).
I had to back up to 10.5, not knowing if any of our customers want to look at ASN.1 We, Inet Technologies, integrate Ethereal into our network monitoring s/w for select customers.
I was curious if you will post this problem to the Ethereal site.
Bob Evans.

Guy Harris wrote:

Bob Evans wrote:

Any ideas on this crash?


It appears that the ASN.1 dissector registered with TCP, UDP, and SCTP port 801 even if it hadn't read in any file, and thus was called even if it had no "PDU tree", and thus cheerfully dereferenced a null pointer and crashed.

I've checked in a fix, which will be in the next release. (I don't know when that will be.)

Is there any way I can disable ASN.1 to see if that is the cause?


You could disable the ASN.1 dissector - Analyze > Enabled Protocols, and turn off the "ASN1" ("ASN.1 decoding") protocol.

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