Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] [Patch] Bug in RCMP dissector (was RE: "Malformed" ASF RMCP ACK

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From: "Francisco Alcoba (TS/EEM)" <francisco.alcoba@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:00:04 +0100
Hi,

Please find attached a patch for the RMCP dissector that will make it not
to look for data blocks in ACK packets, plus a sample capture with packets
that now appear as malformed because they lack it. The protocol specification
is referred to below.

Regards, 

  Francisco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: miércoles, 02 de marzo de 2005 22:29
> To: 'Ethereal user support'
> Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] RE: "Malformed" ASF RMCP ACK packets
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Re-sending due to lack of acknowledgement/response:
> > > 
> > > Ethereal (v0.10.4) is reporting received ASF RMCP ACK packets
> > > as being "malformed" when they appear to be perfectly 
> > valid. Example:
> > > 
> > > 0000  00 0f 1f d7 cd 46 00 b0  d0 21 00 48 08 00 45 00   
> > > 0010  00 20 3d 9a 00 00 20 11  fd 44 ac 10 01 ef ac 10   
> > > 0020  05 df 02 6f 02 6e 00 0c  93 84 06 00 01 86 00 00   
> > > 0030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00               
> > > 
> > > This is an ASF RMCP ACK of an ASF RMCP Capabilities 
> Request packet.
> > > 
> > > I can only guess that Ethereal is assuming that ASF RMCP ACK
> > > packets are supposed to include a data block, when in fact 
> > they do not
> > > (see section 3.2.2.1 Note 1 in the ASF Specification).
> > > 
> > > Perhaps someone on the Ethereal development team can point
> > > out exactly what it is that Ethereal is expecting, but not 
> > finding, in
> > > this packet?
> > 
> > There is a development list you might use if you are trying 
> > specifically to contact developers -althouth I believe most 
> > of them subscribe to this also-.
> > 
> > I suppose nobody can immediately derive your problem from 
> > your description, so if you attach a trace -the trace file 
> > with the packet, not only the hex dump- I can try and have a 
> > look at it; with the disclaimer that I don't know a bit 
> > about ASF, I can only try and find the place where the 
> > program is expecting 
> > something it does not find. If you add a pointer to the ASF 
> > Specification it would probably also help.
> 
> I attached a trace file that demonstrates this problem (a 
> valid RMCP ack packet reported as "malformed" by Ethereal).
> 
> Here's a link to the ASF specification:
> 
> http://www.dmtf.org/standards/documents/ASF/DSP0136.pdf
> 
> -Rob
> 

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